Maurice Ravel: Intermediate Sheet Music

Le Tombeau de Couperin was composed by Ravel in 1918 to honour the memory of his friends who died during the Great War. It was composed in the style of Couperin, in the wake of the rediscovery of the...

On November 22, 1928, Ida Rubinstein’s ballet to the music of Maurice Ravel’s Boléro premiered at the Opéra Garnier in Paris: it was a resounding success. An orchestral version of the Boléro was soon...

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...

Created during the First World War, Maurice Ravel's composition 'Le Tombeau de Couperin' casts a longing look at the past while at the same time being full to the brim with traces of modern music. Eac...

The soft light of the early morning, the song of the cicadas and the beguiling scent of thyme: "Matinée de Provence" describes a morning in Provence, from the first rays of sunshine to the oppressive...

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...

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...

Written during the First World War, Maurice Ravel's composition 'Le Tombeau de Couperin' takes a wistful look at the past, while at the same time being brimming with hints of modernity. Each of the si...

From the 'Classics up to date' series.

A dazzling work for piano, whose inventiveness and harmonic ingenuity opened a whole new era in sound.

Jeux d'Eau, (The Play of Water) composed in 1901, was Ravel's first important Piano composition. This work brought together a new pianistic technique and daring impressionistic harmonies. It is a marv...

Suite pour piano, and La Valse as well as three shorter pieces: Prèlude, A la manière de Borodin (Valse) and A la manière de Emmanuel Chabrier.

Ravel was classicist with Romantic tendencies who was greatly influenced by Liszt. His pianistic tecture is filled with tapestry-like beauty that is oftern characterized by his preference for Hispanic...

This volume offers a selection of original pieces and transcriptions of the time never before published as a collection. These transcriptions, published by Durand from 1928, were very much in demand w...

Ravel ranks as one of the most original French composers of his time. Along with Debussy, he stands in the front rank of great modern composers for the piano and his piano music includes a number of m...