‘…When I started writing this collection of studies, I did so for a very specific reason: to justify the existence of individual piano pieces that were written without a clear destination or title, thus existing purely for their own sake. By grouping them together into a single collection, they would have more reason to exist. To achieve this, I decided to give each piece a specific imprint, a leitmotif, a focus –  that is, a cell, something that would ensure each study was aimed at perfecting a specific technical deficiency in the student’s piano playing…’ – Antonio Molinini