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 Princesse de Polignac, the work does not refer to an actual historical person.
Many arrangements of these sounds have been made over the years. Versions are available for piano and for orchestra. Here is this wonderful music as played by the Berlin Philharmonic Cello section:
