Maurice Ravel
La Valse for orchestra
Poème chorégraphique
Maurice Ravel
La Valse for orchestra
Poème chorégraphique
- Instrumentation Orchestra
- Composer Maurice Ravel
- Series Bärenreiter Urtext
- Editor Douglas Woodfull-Harris
- Edition Score (Urtext) Download
- Publisher Bärenreiter Verlag
- Order no. BA9043-DL
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Description:
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. You know my lively enthusiasm for these wonderful rhythms [...]." However, the work was still subject to changes until its completion and premiere fourteen years later: Initially it was to be called "Vienna", but after the First World War it was given the new name "La Valse" and, after it could perhaps also have functioned as a ballet, it then became an orchestral piece after Serge Diaghilev, the impresario of the Paris Ballets Russes, rejected it.
For his scholarly-critical edition, editor Douglas Woodfull-Harris draws on a large number of manuscript and printed sources of all instrumentations and transcriptions of "La Valse". Of particular importance is orchestral material from the San Francisco Symphony, which was used for performances conducted by Ravel in 1928.
For his scholarly-critical edition, editor Douglas Woodfull-Harris draws on a large number of manuscript and printed sources of all instrumentations and transcriptions of "La Valse". Of particular importance is orchestral material from the San Francisco Symphony, which was used for performances conducted by Ravel in 1928.