Jean-François Monnard

Jean-François Monnard's Urtext edition is the first edition of La Valse that compares all relevant sources. The first printing of the score, published in 1921, served as a model.

Jean-François Monnard's Urtext edition is the first edition of La Valse that compares all relevant sources. The first printing of the score, published in 1921, served as a model.

A 'firework' in Urtext After 'Boléro' and 'La Valse', a third, much-performed work by Ravel is included in the Breitkopf orchestral program - and this, of course, in a 'Breitkopf Urtext' edition, agai...

A 'firework' in Urtext After 'Boléro' and 'La Valse', a third, much-performed work by Ravel is included in the Breitkopf orchestral program - and this, of course, in a 'Breitkopf Urtext' edition, agai...

A 'firework' in Urtext After 'Boléro' and 'La Valse', a third, much-performed work by Ravel is included in the Breitkopf orchestral program - and this, of course, in a 'Breitkopf Urtext' edition, agai...

A 'firework' in Urtext After 'Boléro' and 'La Valse', a third, much-performed work by Ravel is included in the Breitkopf orchestral program - and this, of course, in a 'Breitkopf Urtext' edition, agai...

A 'firework' in Urtext After 'Boléro' and 'La Valse', a third, much-performed work by Ravel is included in the Breitkopf orchestral program - and this, of course, in a 'Breitkopf Urtext' edition, agai...

A 'firework' in Urtext After 'Boléro' and 'La Valse', a third, much-performed work by Ravel is included in the Breitkopf orchestral program - and this, of course, in a 'Breitkopf Urtext' edition, agai...

Click here for the original version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Ravel's ingenious compositional interpretation is still the best-known and most independent orchestration of Pictures at...

Ravel's ingenious compositional interpretation remains to this day the best-known and most independent orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition. When the French composer turned to Mussorgsky's piano...

Click here for the original version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Ravel's ingenious compositional interpretation is still the best-known and most independent orchestration of Pictures at...

Click here for the original version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Ravel's ingenious compositional interpretation is still the best-known and most independent orchestration of Pictures at...

Click here for the original version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Ravel's ingenious compositional interpretation is still the best-known and most independent orchestration of Pictures at...

Ravel's multi-layered Hommage in the 'Breitkopf Urtext' In his Hommage Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ravel turns less to Couperin himself than to French music of the 18th century. On the other hand, editor...

Ravel's multi-layered homage in the 'Breitkopf Urtext' In his homage Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ravel turns less to Couperin himself than to French music of the 18th century. On the other hand, editor Je...

Ravel's multi-layered homage in the 'Breitkopf Urtext' In his homage Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ravel turns less to Couperin himself than to French music of the 18th century. On the other hand, editor Je...

Ravel's multi-layered homage in the 'Breitkopf Urtext' In his homage Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ravel turns less to Couperin himself than to French music of the 18th century. On the other hand, editor Je...

Ravel's multi-layered homage in the 'Breitkopf Urtext' In his homage Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ravel turns less to Couperin himself than to French music of the 18th century. On the other hand, editor Je...

Jean-François Monnard’s Urtext edition is the first edition of La Valse that compares all relevant sources. The first edition of the score, published in 1921, was used as the source. Errors and incons...

In the preface, Monnard illuminates Ravel's sound aesthetic against the background of concert reception and historical recordings. In addition, the editor offers insights into Ravel's ideas about temp...

A 'firework' in Urtext After 'Boléro' and 'La Valse', a third, much-performed work by Ravel is included in the Breitkopf orchestral program - and this, of course, in a 'Breitkopf Urtext' edition, agai...

In his homage Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ravel is less specifically interested in Couperin than in French music of the late 18th century. In his preface, editor Jean-Francois Monnard explains how Ravel p...

Ravels brilliant compositional interpretation of the Pictures at an Exhibition is, to this day, the most famous and independent orchestration of Mussorgskys masterpiece. When the French composer turne...

Ravel needed only two weeks of intensive concentration to orchestrate his piano suite Valses nobles et sentimentales, which was given its premiere performance in March 1911. Consisting of seven waltze...

Hinter den Noten bildet den würdigen Abschluss der langjährigen Zusammenarbeit von Breitkopf & Härtel mit dem renommierten Dirigenten und Ravel-Experten Jean-François Monnard. Der schmale Band führt d...