This thesis consists of two parts: the first part is the graduate recital, which includes the program and program notes. The second part is the lecture recital, a research paper for discussing “The craft of Scriabin's and Debussy's Piano Music－The Analytical Study of their Preludes”.

There are five chapters in the lecture recital. The first chapter is preface and the second chapter mainly discusses the historical developments of preludes. The third chapter selects two sets of Scriabin's Piano Preludes, and it focuses on “the composer’s brief biography” and “the analysis of Scriabin's Op.17 and Op.74”. Four of Debussy's preludes are chosen for the fourth chapter, and it also mentions four points about the composer's brief biography, the relationship between Impressionism and Symbolism, the composition background and the analysis of these four preludes. The fifth chapter is the conclusion.

As the starter for the lecture recital, the Preludes discuss the changes in the turbulent Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. Scriabin and Debussy lived in the same period and their thoughts pretty similar, but they expressed themselves in their music form and craft were quite different. Through this analytical study, we can know the differences and similarities of these two composers.