Maurice Ravel

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With his composition "L'Aurore" (Dawn) in 1905, Maurice Ravel started his fifth and last attempt to win the coveted "Prix de Rome" of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His renewed elimination in t...

Ravel's ballet, Daphnis and Chloé, was commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and premiered with the Ballets Russes in Paris in 1912. The ballet is now rarely performed, but its Suite No. 2 remains popular....

Poem by Colette, English translations by Katharine Wolff.

This title is taken from the compilation French Songs And Choruses For Mixed-Voice Choir (NOV165198) Chanson Française belongs to Ravel's larger work entitled Chants Populaires. Except for the...

Mixed chorus. For SATB Choir. Trois Chansons III. Ronde (Roundelay). Choral. Choral Part(s). 10 pages.

Revised edition of the famous choral songs by the composer of 'Bolero'. This cycle, too, is designed for a great climax. 'Nicolette' describes a simple, almost naïve fairy-tale character. The solos of...

As a tribute to 18th Century French music, as well as to the memory of Francois Couperin, Ravel wrote this set of six piano pieces in the form of a suite, and dedicated each piece to a friend who had...

Maurice Ravel's melancholy popular 'Pavane for a Dead Princess' composed in 1899 was originally written for piano before he arranged it for orchestra in 1910. Though dedicated to a real princess, the...

Maurice Ravel's Le Tombeau De Couperin, which has been expertly arranged for Wind Quintet by Hans Abrahamsen.

Maurice Ravel's Le Tombeau De Couperin, which has been expertly arranged for Wind Quintet by Hans Abrahamsen.

Mother Goose Suite' was originally composed for piano - four hands and later expanded into a ballet. This wind quintet version features all of the favorite solo passages for winds. Instrumentation: Fl...

for Wind Quintet. Written just 10 years after Debussy's Quartet, Debussy wrote Ravel, 'In the name of the gods of music and of my own, do not change one thing in your Quartet.' Four Movements total

Inspired by the piano waltzes of Franz Schubert, these were originally for piano and later orchestrated. A remarkable transcription of eight movements which blend seamlessly from one to another.

One of the most famous melodies by Maurice Ravel, arranged for Double Wind Quintet with String Bass (or Contrabassoon) by Mark A. Popkin. This piece was originally composed for piano in 1899, while Ra...

Ravel was not only a master craftsman of exquisitely constructed chamber works, but he was also a key innovator, inspired by the tonal/atonal experiments of Schoenberg, Stravinsky and the Second Vienn...

after the orchestral version

As a prestigious composer of the early 20th century, Maurice Ravel's Piece in the Habanera Style, transcribed for Flute and Harp by Christian Lardé and Marie-Claire Jamet, contains many features which...

With his only piano trio, Maurice Ravel broke new personal ground and yet, in a stroke of genius, created a work of the early 20th century that is outstanding in many respects and a key work in this g...