Maurice Ravel: Advanced Sheet Music

Ravel/ed. by Weekley & Arganbright: Maurice Ravel based the five pieces in this remarkable suite on French 'Mother Goose' nursery tales. Laideronnette, Impératrice Des Pagodes, is entirely set in the...

Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales created a stir when they were anonymously premiered in Paris' Société nationale indépendante in 1911: many listeners thought they were by Satie, or even Kodály!...

Ravel's greatest piano masterpiece, written in 1908, inspired by three poems by Aloysius Bertrand. In 3 movements: Ondine, Le Gibet, Scarbo. The poems on which the pieces are based are presented in th...

The title of Ravel's Miroirs (1904/05) can be interpreted as 'reflections' of the human world of experiences. Among the nature pictures in this cycle, 'Une barque sur l'océan' is particularly popular,...

'Virtuoso piece in the style of a Hungarian rhapsody” - thus reads Ravel's entry on 'Tzigane” in the so-called 'Autobiographical Sketch”. Composed in 1924, there are three versions of this work: with...

Maurice Ravel finished In 1905 his piano cycle "Miroirs" of which some parts are orchestrated by the composer himself. Especially the fourth part, "Alborada del gracioso", created in 1919 in Paris for...

In June 1905, Ravel told a friend shortly before setting off on a long holiday: 'I was terribly busy because of a piece for harp commissioned by the Érard company. I was able to finish it after a fash...

It was unmistakably Liszt's piano piece 'Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este' that inspired Ravel to compose one of his most famous works in 1901: 'Jeux d'eau'. Laid out in sonata form, its sound is gove...

In the “Nocturnes” for orchestra and women’s chorus, composed between 1897 and 1899, Debussy realised his concept that the musical form should emerge freely from the material. With the tripartite stru...

Out of admiration for the "Waltz King" Johann Strauss, Ravel had already planned a waltz composition in 1906, the realisation of which was hindered by other projects and the outbreak of the First Worl...

Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit is one of the most important piano works of the 20th century and constitutes the height of the extension of the pianistic playing techniques and tonal possibilites w...

Maurice Ravel's Mother Goose Suite compirses five charming miniatures, each evoking a fairy tale scene. From the simplicity of the opening 'Pavane of Sleeping Beauty' to the whirling dance of the 'Con...

Maurice Ravel's Mother Goose Suite compirses five charming miniatures, each evoking a fairy tale scene. From the simplicity of the opening 'Pavane of Sleeping Beauty' to the whirling dance of the 'Con...

The immediate model for this first important chamber music work by Ravel was Debussy’s String Quartet from 1892/93. Nevertheless, the composition, written in 1902/03, already contains unmistakable fea...

This collection contains works from the so-called 'Belle Époque', the time period right around the turn of the 20th century which have been arranged for flute and piano by Franco Cesarini. It includes...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Maurice Ravel finished In 1905 his piano cycle 'Miroirs' of which some parts are orchestrated by the composer himself. Especially the fourth part, 'Alborada del gracioso', created in 1919 in Paris for...

Maurice Ravel finished In 1905 his piano cycle 'Miroirs' of which some parts are orchestrated by the composer himself. Especially the fourth part, 'Alborada del gracioso', created in 1919 in Paris for...