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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.
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.
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".
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 ...
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.
Henri Paul Julien Dutilleux (French: [ɑ̃ʁi dytijø]; 22 January 1916 – 22 May 2013) was a French composer of late 20th-century classical music.Among the leading French composers of his time, his work was rooted in the Impressionistic style of Debussy and Ravel, but in an idiosyncratic, individual style.
This work came about as a result of a commission by the Revue musicale mensuelle de la Société Internationale de Musique. [3] In total, six composers were commissioned: Maurice Ravel, ('Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn'), Claude Debussy ('Hommage à Haydn'), Vincent d'Indy, Paul Dukas ('Prélude Élégiaque'), Reynaldo Hahn ('Theme Varié sur le nom de Haydn'), and Charles-Marie Widor ('Fugue sur ...
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).