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Portrait of Maurice Ravel

Composer

Maurice Ravel

French composer (1875–1937)

1875–1937

467 works in the index

Born
1875
Died
1937
Birthplace
Ciboure
Citizenship / historical state
France
Period (estimated from birth year)
Modern

Biography

Maurice Ravel, who was born in a Basque fishing village close to the Spanish border, came to Paris as a baby, and was taking piano lessons when he was six. In the early years of the new century he helped create the Société Musicale Independante (SMI), which then (in 1910) premiered his piano solo “Ma mère l'oye,” (Mother Goose), based on the folktales collected by Charles Perrault. This was later scored for a full orchestra and still later choreographed as a ballet. During the first world war Ravel was driving a truck as his day job, while composing “Le Tombeau de Couperin,” a suite for solo piano in six movements. Ravel died after experimental brain surgery in late 1937 and was buried at Levallois-Perret, near Paris, on December 30 that year. His best known legacy is his Boléro, a fifteen-minute orchestral work that consists of an initial theme and counter-theme repeated in a constant crescendo building to a thunderous conclusion

In this catalogue

Common listed instruments
Piano, Voice, Cello, violin, Orchestra
Genres represented
Classical, Children, Christmas, New Age
Works with composition dates
54 of 467

These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.

Catalogue

Works page 5 of 10

Years are composition dates where known. Instruments describe editions in our catalogue and may include arrangements. A dash means the detail is not recorded.

Works and available sheet music details
WorkYear composedCatalogue / opusKey in titleListed instrumentsGenreEditions
Ravel: Sonatina — —— PianoClassical 1
The Enchanted Garden: 1st Violin — —— OrchestraClassical 1
The Enchanted Garden: 2nd Violin — —— OrchestraClassical 1
The Enchanted Garden: Viola — —— OrchestraClassical 1
The Enchanted Garden: Cello — —— OrchestraClassical 1
The Enchanted Garden: String Bass — —— OrchestraClassical 1
Pavane (Pour Une Infante Defunte): Flute — —— —Classical 1
Pavane (Pour Une Infante Defunte): Oboe — —— —Classical 1
Pavane (Pour Une Infante Defunte): Bassoon — —— —Classical 1
Pavane (Pour Une Infante Defunte): 1st F Horn — —— —Classical 1
Pavane (Pour Une Infante Defunte): 1st Trombone — —— —Classical 1
Pavane (Pour Une Infante Defunte): Baritone B.C. — —— —Classical 1
Pavane (Pour Une Infante Defunte): Baritone T.C. — —— —Classical 1
Pavane (Pour Une Infante Defunte): Tuba — —— —Classical 1
Pavane (Pour Une Infante Defunte): Mallets — —— —Classical 1
Pavane (Pour Une Infante Defunte): Timpani — —— —Classical 1
Pavane (Pour Une Infante Defunte): 1st Percussion — —— —Classical 1
Pavane (Pour Une Infante Defunte): 2nd Percussion — —— —Classical 1
Ravel's Pavane — —— —— 1
Pavane et Laideronnette — —— —— 1
Three Lovely Birds from Paradise — —— Horn, Trombone, Tuba— 1
Valses nobles et sentimentales: V. Presque lent — —— PianoClassical 2
Don Quichotte à Dulcineé: I. Chanson romanesque — —— Piano, Voice, Low VoiceClassical 5
Boléro 1928Wikidata —— —— 0
Introduction et Allegro — —— —— 0
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand 1930Wikidata —— —— 0
Vocalise-étude en forme de Habanera 1907Wikidata —— —— 0
D'Anne — —— —Classical —
jouant de l'Espinette — —— —Classical —
Das Lied Von Der Erde : Movement VI, Der Abschied, Excerpt 1 — —— —— —
II. Blues — —— Piano, violinClassical 1
I. Nicollette — —— Choir, A CappellaClassical —
Chanson hebraique — —— Voice High, Low VoiceClassical 2
Choeur des patres (duet;L'Enfant et les Sortileges) — —— —— —
Ballade de la reine morte d'amier — —— Voice HighClassical —
Air de l'horge (L'Enfant et les Sortileges) — —— —— —
Air de feu (L'Enfant et les Sortileges) — —— —— —
Air de l'enfant (L'Enfant et les Sortileges) — —— —— —
Gaspard de la niut — —— PianoClassical 1
Pavane For A Dead Princess — —— —— 0
Antique Minuet — —— PianoClassical 1
Chanson romanesque — —— —— —
Chanson epique — —— —— —
Chanson a boire — —— —— —
I. Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant [Pavane of Sleeping Beauty in the wood] — —— —— —
II. Petit Poucet [Little Tom Thumb/Hop o' my thumb] — —— —— —
III. Laideronnette, Imperatrice des pagodes ["Little Homely," Empress of the toy mandarins] — —— —— —
V. Le jardin feerique [The wondrous garden] — —— —— —

Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 2657495. Portrait: Unknown author Unknown author The image holder, the Bibliothèque nationale de France has not identified a photographer. (Follow link and click on "Detailed information".), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.