Piano Masterpieces of Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Obras maestras para piano.

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) ranks as one of the most original French composers of his time, a consummate craftsman who continually sought perfection of form and style, and whose unique harmonie language was unmistakably his own. Along with Debussy, he stands in the front rank of great modern composers for the piano and his piano music includes a number of masterpieces considered vital to the repertoire of any serious pianist. This handsome affordable volume reprints a rich selection of those crucial compositions.
From the dazzling Jeux d'eau, whose inventiveness and harmonie ingenuity opened a whole new era in sound, to the beloved and melodic Pavane pour une infante défunte, to the suite Gaspard de la nuit, music of legendary difficulty which every serious pianist eventually attempts, the piano music of Ravel is among the most recorded and performed in the repertoire. This inexpensive Dover edition makes that music available, at a reasonable priee, to pianists who wish to play and study the works of a composer in the vanguard of "the new order of post-Lisztian piano writing."
New Dover (1986) selection of piano music reprinted from various French sheet music editions.
Translations of poetic texts.

CONTENIDO:

- Menuet antique (Old Minuet; composed 1895; dedicated to Ricardo Viñes)

- Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Deceased Infanta; 1899; dedicated ta Princess E. de Polignac)

- Jeux d'eau (Play ofWater; 1901; dedicated ta Gabriel Fauré)

- Sonatine (Sonatina; 1903-05; dedicated to Ida and Cipa Godebski)
I. Modéré
II. Mouvt. de Menuet
III. Animé

- Miroirs (Mirrors; 1904-05)
I. Noctuelles (Night Maths; dedicated ta Léon Paul Fargue)
II. Oiseaux tristes (Sad Birds; dedicated ta Ricardo Viñes)
III. Une barque sur l'océan (A Boat on the Ocean; dedicated ta Paul Sardes)
IV. Alborada deI gracioso (The Comedian's Aubade; dedicated to M.-D. Calvocoressi)
V. La vallée des cloches (The Valley of Bells; dedicated to Maurice Delage)

- Gaspard de la nuit (Artful Dodger of the Night; 1908)
Poetic texts and translations
I. Ondine (Undine; dedicated to Harold Bauer)
II. Le gibet (The Gibbet; dedicated ta Jean Marnald)
III. Scarbo (dedicated to Rudolph Ganz)

- Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn (Minuet on the Name of Haydn; 1909)