Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) originally wrote DEUX MÉLODIES HÉBRAÏQUES (TWO HEBREW SONGS) for voice and piano for soprano Alvina Alvi, who premiered the two songs in June of 1914. While both songs includ...

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) originally wrote DEUX MÉLODIES HÉBRAÏQUES (TWO HEBREW SONGS) for voice and piano for soprano Alvina Alvi, who premiered the two songs in June of 1914. While both songs includ...

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) wrote the first of his CINQ MÉLODIES POPULAIRES GRECQUES (Five Greek Folk Melodies) in 1904 at the urgent request of Pierre Aubry, who wished to illustrate a lecture he was g...

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) originally wrote Deux Mélodies Hébraïques (Two Hebrew Songs) for voice and piano for soprano Alvina Alvi, who premiered the two songs in June of 1914. While both songs includ...

This gorgeously melodic duet was composed in four parts and in memory of famous composer Claude Debussy. The duet premiered on April 6th, 1922.

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), like many French composer of the time, tried his hand at writing the habanera in 1907, a Cuban dance which was very popular in Spain at the end of the 19th century. Original...

Originally written in 1899 by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) for solo piano, and later orchestrated by the composer, Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess) remains one of the enduring...

Claude Debussy - Sonate, Albert Roussel - Sonate No. 2 op. 28, Louis Aubert - Sonate, Maurice Ravel - Sonate

Maurice Ravel's (1875-1937) longest work at almost an hour, the complete one-act ballet Daphnis et Chloé was described by the composer as a "symphonie choregraphique" (choreographic symphony). Ravel b...

In 1906, Maurice Ravel wrote in a letter: "It is not particularly demanding what is currently occupying me: a great waltz, a kind of homage to the memory of the great Strauss, not Richard, but Johann....

In 1906, Maurice Ravel wrote in a letter: "It is not particularly demanding what is currently occupying me: a great waltz, a kind of homage to the memory of the great Strauss, not Richard, but Johann....

Maurice Ravel's (1875-1937) longest work at almost an hour, the complete one-act ballet Daphnis et Chloé was described by the composer as a "symphonie choregraphique" (choreographic symphony). Ravel b...