Maurice Ravel: Advanced Sheet Music

Pavane pour une infante defunte (Pavane for a dead (Spanish) princess was composed for piano by Maurice Ravel, aged 24 in the year 1899. Ravel composed the version for symphony orchestra in 1910. It's...

This music book contains the original sheet music of the famous "Bolero" (Transcription pour Piano 4 à mains par l'AUTEUR) for two pianists. Suitable for advanced piano players.

The three movements are marked Modéré, Mouvement de Menuet, and Animé.

Composed by Maurice Ravel in 1911, this set of eight waltzes was inspired conceptually by 19th century waltzes by Franz Schubert and Johann Strauss. The work beautifully reflects Ravel's daring early...

This major 20th-century Neoclassical work is Ravel's last work for piano solo. A tombeau is a lament, and each of the six movements is intended as a musical epitaph to friends lost in the war. The dif...

Considered as one of the masterworks of 20th century piano literature, this critical edition utilizes interpretive clues from such noted French pianists and pedagogues as Casadesus, Perlemuter, and Ci...

This is Maurice Hinson's edition of 'one of the most tightly organized and classically oriented works to come from Ravel's pen.' In the presentation of this work, in some cases notes are redistributed...

This set of five pieces reflects an intensely personal, realistic and sensitive portrayal of animal life, the sea and pastoral landscapes. Powerfully poetic and vividly descriptive, the music exhibits...

Dedicated to Gabriel Faure, Ravel prefaces this piece of 'liquid poetry' with a line by Henri de Regnier: 'The river god laughs at the water as it tickles him.' Ravel indicated that he wanted the work...

It was unmistakably Liszt's piano work "Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este" that inspired Ravel to write one of his most famous works in 1901. The piece is formally conceived as a sonata form, dominated...

Ravel's cycle of "Valses nobles et sentimentales" caused irritation at the anonymous premiere in 1911 at the Société nationale indépendante in Paris: many suspected Satie or even Kodály as the compose...

Ravel discovered in Aloysius Bertrand’s compilation of poems Gaspard de la nuit (1842) a world of shadows, irony, and imagination that spoke directly to his own artistic sensibility. From these poetic...