Dukas Piano solo music

[pianowelsh]

other than the ravishing sonata do you guys know much of his piano music and what are your opinions of it?

[Nordlys]

Dukas is definitely underrated and worth playing.
The sonata, e flat minor and lasting 50 minutes, is very good and impressive.

Another work is variations on a baroque theme (I think Rameau), which is also a very good work, and quite difficult. He exploits most romantic piano techniques in these variations.

Dukas was a friend of Debussy, but his piano music is not anything like Debussy. It is in the late romantic style, grand conception and complex tonal harmony.

[pianowelsh]

wasn't he in the same class as Debussy at the conservatoire? along with ravel