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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".
"Villa-Lobos's String Quartets". In Intimate Voices: The Twentieth-Century String Quartet, vol. 1: Debussy to Villa-Lobos, edited by Evan Jones, 223–255. Eastman Studies in Music 70. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press. ISBN 978-1-58046-322-5. Taruskin, Richard. 2009. Music in the Early Twentieth Century.
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 ...
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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.
Maurice Charles Delage was born and died in Paris.He first worked as a clerk for a maritime agency in Paris, and later as a fishmonger in Boulogne.He also served for a time in the French army, before embarking on a music career in his twenties. [2]