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Gaspard de la nuit (subtitled Trois poèmes pour piano d'après Aloysius Bertrand), M. 55 is a suite of piano pieces by Maurice Ravel, written in 1908.It has three movements, each based on a poem or fantaisie from the collection Gaspard de la Nuit – Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot completed in 1836 by Aloysius Bertrand.
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 ...
Ravel in 1907. Miroirs (French for "Mirrors") is a five-movement suite for solo piano written by French composer Maurice Ravel between 1904 and 1905. [1] First performed by Ricardo Viñes in 1906, Miroirs contains five movements, each dedicated to a fellow member of the French avant-garde artist group Les Apaches.
Ravel in 1925. Joseph Maurice Ravel [n 1] (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living ...
The house in Lyons-la-Forêt where Ravel composed Le Tombeau de Couperin. In 1919 Ravel orchestrated four movements of the work (Prélude, Forlane, Menuet and Rigaudon); [6] this version was premiered in February 1920 by Rhené-Baton and the Pasdeloup Orchestra, and has remained one of his more popular works.
Tzigane is a rhapsodic composition by the French composer Maurice Ravel.The original instrumentation was for violin and piano (with optional luthéal attachment). The first performance took place in London on 26 April 1924 with the dedicatee, Hungarian violinist Jelly d'Arányi, on the violin and Henri Gil-Marchex at the piano (with luthéal).
The critic Émile Vuillermoz complained that Ravel's playing of the work was "unutterably slow". [7] However, the composer was not impressed by interpretations that plodded. After a performance by Charles Oulmont, Ravel mentioned to him that the piece was called "Pavane for a dead princess", not "dead pavane for a princess". [8]
Chansons madécasses (Madagascan Songs) is a set of three exotic art songs by Maurice Ravel written in 1925 and 1926 to words from the poetry collection of the same name by Évariste de Parny. [ 1 ] Structure