A waltz, probably deriving from German Ländler, is dance music in triple metre, often written in 34 time. A waltz typically sounds one chord per measure, and the accompaniment style particularly assoc
A section from Johann Strauss' Waltz from Die Fledermaus
Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term
Ravel in 1925
Joseph Ravel (1875), Marie Delouart (1870) and Maurice Ravel aged four (1879)
Piano class of Charles de Bériot in 1895, with Ravel on the left