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Maurice Ravel completed his String Quartet in F major in early April 1903 at the age of 28. It was premiered in Paris in March the following year. The work follows a four-movement classical structure: the opening movement, in sonata form, presents two themes that occur again later in the work; a playful scherzo second movement is followed by a lyrical slow movement.
In the years 1904–05, as he was finishing his String Quartet, Ravel composed Miroirs (Mirrors), a suite of five short piano pieces. [13] He later orchestrated two of them: the orchestral version of "Une Barque sur l'océan" (A Barque on the Ocean) came out in 1906; [14] more than a decade elapsed before Ravel orchestrated the other, the "Alborada del gracioso".
Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet (Introduction et allegro pour harpe, flûte, clarinette et quatuor) is a chamber work by Maurice Ravel. It is a short piece, typically lasting between ten and eleven minutes in performance.
Orchestra 1907 A15: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Antar: Orchestra 1909 Incidental music to a 5-act play by Chékry-Ganem; partial reorchestration of most of the symphonic poem Antar Op. 9, the movements reordered and interspersed with reorchestrated fragments of the same work, a fragment of the opera Mlada, orchestrated fragments of songs from the Romances Op. 4 and Op. 7, and an extract from ...
8 time in the score. [79] The fourth and last movement of Ravel's String Quartet is mostly in 5 8 and 5 4 time, alternating several times with 3 4 time. [80] A fourth example from Ravel is a particularly intense, if brief use of quintuples for symbolic purposes.
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Completed in 1924 shortly before his death at the age of 79, it is his last composition. His pupil Maurice Ravel had dedicated his String Quartet to Fauré in 1903, and he and others urged Fauré to compose one of his own; he declined on the grounds that it was too difficult. When he finally decided to write it, he did so in trepidation.
They are assigned morning or evening times when they have the opportunity to water 20 minutes per sprinkler zone three days a week. The watering schedule, which is based on house numbers, is ...