Maurice Ravel

Originally composed in 1913 as a sight-reading piece for the Conservatoire de Paris Piano Competitions, this thoughtful, lyrical piece presents an elegant, enchanted, impressionistic musical landscape...

Ravel was classicist with Romantic tendencies who was greatly influenced by Liszt. His pianistic tecture is filled with tapestry-like beauty that is oftern characterized by his preference for Hispanic...

This set of five pieces reflects an intensely personal, realistic and sensitive portrayal of animal life, the sea and pastoral landscapes. Powerfully poetic and vividly descriptive, the music exhibits...

Dedicated to Gabriel Faure, Ravel prefaces this piece of 'liquid poetry' with a line by Henri de Regnier: 'The river god laughs at the water as it tickles him.' Ravel indicated that he wanted the work...

This nicely spaced, very readable edition of the beautiful Ravel piece is especially well-notated and comes with historical notes and suggestions for performance by the composer himself.

It was unmistakably Liszt's piano work "Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este" that inspired Ravel to write one of his most famous works in 1901. The piece is formally conceived as a sonata form, dominated...

Ravel's cycle of "Valses nobles et sentimentales" caused irritation at the anonymous premiere in 1911 at the Société nationale indépendante in Paris: many suspected Satie or even Kodály as the compose...

This edition contains a selection of the easiest piano pieces and dances by Maurice Ravel. Piano music occupies an important place in his output and often contains dance-like elements. Fortunately Rav...

> Score and orchestral parts in large format (25.5 x 32.5 cm) > Includes source descriptions and a Critical Commentary with alternative readings (Eng) > Informative Introduction on the work's history...

In the 1960s, long after Ravel’s death, the musical text of the then available Durand edition of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major underwent various changes. Although it is unknown who authorised thes...

This work, which Ravel originally composed for piano solo in 1899 and which was published by Demets, quickly achieved great success and has since been considered one of the most popular works in the c...

This volume offers a selection of original pieces and transcriptions of the time never before published as a collection. These transcriptions, published by Durand from 1928, were very much in demand w...

Ravel ranks as one of the most original French composers of his time. Along with Debussy, he stands in the front rank of great modern composers for the piano and his piano music includes a number of m...

Musique française is a series designed for students and teachers as well as professionals. These editions offer masterworks in French music, with performance suggestions and historical and stylistic c...

The suite Ma mère l’Oye was composed by Maurice Ravel for piano four hands in 1908–1910. For these "cinq pièces enfantines" [five children’s pieces], the composer drew inspiration from the tales of th...

This collection brings together thirty years of Ravel compositions. It holds famous works like the Sonatine, as well as lesser-known pieces such as the Menuet en Ut dièse mineur or the 1913 Prélude. T...

These early works include Ravel's Sonatina, Gaspard de la Nuit, Menuet sur le nome de Hadyn, and three rarely performed fragments for solo piano transcribed by the composer from his ballet Daphnis et...

These later piano pieces of Ravel's are notable for their abandonment of an impressionistic approach to writing. Many pay homage to composers Ravel admired: Borodin, Chabrier and Couperin.

Ravel's best pieces are here, including: Pavane pour une infante défunte - Gaspard de la nuit - Menuet sur le nom de Haydn.

This volume contains transcriptions of some of Ravel's chamber and symphonic works, including Rapsodie espagnole and Bolero.

Selected works from the French master, including: Sonatine - Miroirs - and La Parade.

The suite Ma mère l’Oye was composed by Maurice Ravel for piano four hands in 1908–1910. For these "cinq pièces enfantines" [five children’s pieces], the composer drew inspiration from the tales of th...

Ravel discovered in Aloysius Bertrand’s compilation of poems Gaspard de la nuit (1842) a world of shadows, irony, and imagination that spoke directly to his own artistic sensibility. From these poetic...

It was Jules Écorcheville (1872–1915) who took the initiative in 1909 of organizing a unique commemoration of the centenary of the death of Joseph Haydn (1732–1809). The musicologist suggested to seve...