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
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
Marguerite Long
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Marguerite Marie-Charlotte Long was a French pianist, pedagogue, lecturer, and an ambassador of French music.
Le Tombeau de Couperin
…criticism saying, "The dead are sad enough, in their eternal silence." The first performance of the original piano version was given on 11 April 1919 by Marguerite Long, in the Salle Gaveau in Paris. Long was the widow of Joseph de Marliave, to whom the last movement of the piece, the Toccata, is dedicated. In 1919…
Marguerite Long ca. 1900