Maurice Ravel Archive

Ravel’s “La Valse” exists in three versions, all written between December 1919 and March 1920. The composer’s original piano duet version, displays all the virtuosity, technical brilliance, and sensual richness that are the hallmarks of …

Maurice Ravel composed the Tombeau de Couperin in 1917. Ravel described it as an homage “directed less in fact to Couperin himself than to French music of the 18th century.” Disregarding the philosopher (and would-be …

During World War I, French composer Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) wrote a six-movement suite for solo piano titled Le tombeau de Couperin. A “tombeau” (“tomb” in French) is a musical tribute to someone who has passed …

“Miroirs” by Maurice Ravel was composed during 1904-05 and given its premiere in 1906. Meaning “Reflections,” the work demonstrates the development of Ravel’s technique as a composer of piano music, which had first leapt into …

Composer Maurice Ravel wrote: ”The G-major Concerto took two years of work. The opening theme came to me on a train between Oxford and London. But the initial idea is nothing. The work of chiseling …