Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major, was composed between 1929 and 1931. The piano concerto is in three movements, with a total playing time of a little over 20 minutes. Ravel said that in this piece he was not aiming to be profound but to entertain, in the manner of Mozart and Saint-Saëns .
Piano Concerto in G (Ravel) Piano Concerto No. 2 (Bartók) Piano Concerto No. 5 (Prokofiev) ... Violin Concerto No. 3 (Mozart) Flute concertos
Paul Wittgenstein at the piano. In preparing for composition, Ravel studied several pieces written for one-handed piano, including Camille Saint-Saëns's Six Études pour la main gauche (Six Études for the Left Hand) (Op. 135), Leopold Godowsky's transcription for the left hand of Frédéric Chopin's Etudes (Opp. 10 and 25), Carl Czerny's Ecole de la main gauche (School of the Left Hand) (Op ...
The best known left-hand concerto is the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D by Maurice Ravel, which was written for Paul Wittgenstein between 1929 and 1930. Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in World War I, commissioned a number of such works around that time, as did Otakar Hollmann .
At the beginning of the 1930s Ravel was working on two piano concertos. He completed the Piano Concerto in D major for the Left Hand first. It was commissioned by the Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm during the First World War. Ravel was stimulated by the technical challenges of the project: "In a work of this kind ...
Piano four hands 1910 Originally for orchestra, transcription 70: Frontispice: Two pianos five hands 1918 For S.P. 503: Le Poème du Vardar by Ricciotto Canudo 72a: La Valse: Two pianos 1920 Transcription of M. 72 80a: Fanfare: Piano four hands 1927 Transcription of M. 80 81b: Boléro: Piano four hands 1929 Transcription of M. 81 82a: Concerto ...
Piano Concerto in G major may refer to: Piano Concerto No. 17 (Mozart) Piano Concerto No. 4 (Beethoven) Piano Concerto No. 2 (Tchaikovsky) Piano Concerto in G major (Ravel) Piano Concerto No. 2 (Bartók) Piano Concerto No. 5 (Prokofiev)
The title of this page is incorrect - the actual name of the piece is "Concerto Pour Piano et Orchestre", which translates as "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra" Ravel wasn't a classical composer; this piece does not stay in one key. I redirected it to "Concerto pour Piano et Orchestre," although maybe it wasn't necessary--the French article ...