La valse
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La valse, poème chorégraphique pour orchestre, is a work written by Maurice Ravel between February 1919 and 1920; it was first performed on 12 December 1920 in Paris. It was conceived as a ballet but
Maurice Ravel
"Court ball in Vienna" by Wilhelm Gause (1900)
Le Tombeau de Couperin
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Le Tombeau de Couperin is a suite for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, composed between 1914 and 1917. The piece is in six movements, based on those of a traditional Baroque suite. Each movement is dedica
La valse
…It is infrequently performed due to its difficulty. Lucien Garban produced a transcription for piano four hands in 1920. He had transcribed Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin in 1919 in similar fashion. Glenn Gould, who rarely played Ravel's music, made his own arrangement of it in 1975. In 2008 Andrey Kasparov produced a…
Cover of the first edition published by Durand Cie (1918), designed by Ravel
The house where Ravel composed the work
A poster advertising Le tombeau and other 1920s Ballets suédois productions at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées