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"Ravel is one of the rare French composers who have left so strong an imprint on their art that music after them can never be the same." — Alexis Roland-Manuel. Handsome, affordable treasury of outstanding works by French master: Pavane pour une infante défunte, Jeux d'eau, Sonatine, Miroirs, Menuet antique, Gaspard de la nuit, more.
Synopsis
"Ravel is one of the rare French composers who have left so strong an imprint on their art that music after them can never be the same." Alexis Roland-Manuel.
Maurice Ravel (1875 1937) ranks as one of the most original French composers of his time, a consummate craftsman who continually sought perfection of form and style, and whose unique harmonic language was unmistakably his own. Along with Debussy, he stands in the front rank of great modern composers for the piano and his piano music includes a number of masterpieces considered vital to the repertoire of any serious pianist. This handsome, affordable volume reprints a rich selection of his compositions: "Pavane pour une infante defunte," "Jeux d'eau," "Sonatine," "Miroirs," "Menuet antique," "Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn," "Gaspard de la nuit," and more.
From the dazzling "Jeux d'eau," whose inventiveness and harmonic ingenuity opened a whole new era in sound, to the beloved "Pavane pour une infante defunte," to the suite "Gaspard de la nuit," music of legendary difficulty that every serious pianist eventually attempts, the piano music of Ravel is among the most recorded and performed in the repertoire. This inexpensive Dover edition makes that music available, at a reasonable price, to pianists who wish to play and study the works of a composer in the vanguard of "the new order of post-Lisztian piano writing."
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Synopsis
Handsome, affordable treasury features Pavane pour une infante défunte, Jeux d'eau, Sonatine, Miroirs, Menuet antique, Gaspard de la nuit, more. Influential works belong in the repertoire of every serious pianist.
Table of Contents
Menuet antique (Old Minuet; composed 1895; dedicated to Ricardo Viñes)
Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Deceased Infanta; 1899; dedicated to Princess E. de Polignac)
Jeux d'eau (Play of Water; 1901; dedicated to Gabriel Fauré)
Sonatine (Sonatina; 1903-05; dedicated to Ida and Cipa Godebski)
I. Modéré
II. Mouvt de Menuet
III. Animé
Miroirs (Mirrors; 1904-05)
I. Noctuelles (Night Moths; dedicated to Léon Paul Fargue)
II. Oiseaux tristes (Sad Birds; dedicated to Ricardo Viñes)
III. Une barque sur l'océan (A Boat on the Ocean; dedicated to Paul Sordes)
IV. Alborada del gracioso (The Comedian's Aubade; dedicated to M.-D. Calvocoressi)
V. La vallée des cloches (The Valley of Bells; dedicated to Maurice Delage)
Gaspard de la nuit (Artful Dodger of the Night; 1908)
Poetic texts and translations
I. Ondine (Undine; dedicated to Harold Bauer)
II. Le gibet (The Gibbet; dedicated to Jean Marnold)
III. Scarbo (dedicated to Rudolph Ganz)
Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn (Minuet on the Name of Haydn; 1909)