This heading includes pieces of a descriptive and poetic character which differ from the “Femmes de légende” and the “Pièces de concert” in terms of range and degree of difficulty. However, they are not easy to perform and require great empathy.

Due to their large number they have been divided into two volumes, the first of which contains those composed before 1900, the second those composed after 1900. The third volume of Pièces pittoresques et poétiques contains eight separate pieces, which...