The second book of Debussy's Préludes was published in ... composed in 1913 as a sight-reading test for the Concours de Piano of the Paris Conservatoire, and subsequently dedicated to Jeanne ...

It is closely related to the Scherzo-Intermezzo from Debussy's 1880 Piano Trio and thus also to the period when Debussy was working as tutor and pianist in the household of Nadezhda von Meck ...