Maurice Ravel
La Valse
Poème Chorégraphique pour Orchestre
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Maurice Ravel
La Valse
Poème Chorégraphique pour Orchestre
- Instrumentation Concert Band
- Composer Maurice Ravel
- Editor Jos van de Braak
- Series Baton Orchestral
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- Edition Score Download
- Publisher Baton Music
- Order no. BTM503SC-DL
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Description:
La valse, poème chorégraphique pour orchestre, is written by Maurice Ravel from February 1919 until 1920. It was conceived as a ballet but is now more often heard as a concert work. The work has been described as a tribute to the waltz. Ravel himself described La Valse with the following preface to the score: "Through whirling clouds, waltzing couples may be faintly distinguished. The clouds gradually scatter: one sees at letter A an immense hall peopled with a whirling crowd. The scene is gradually illuminated. The light of the chandeliers bursts forth at the fortissimo letter B. Set in an imperial court, about 1855."