Grażyna Bacewicz wrote Ten Studies for piano in 1956. Although she had a special predilection for the violin and frequently gave concerts as a violinist, with great success, her compositional output included a total of thirty piano pieces, many of which were performed by the composer herself in Warsaw or Paris.

The whole cycle was intended as a continuation of the nineteenth-century cycles of educational and virtuoso pieces following the model of Chopin's and Liszt's etudes. In Bacewicz's st...