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This homage to Ravel bears a few distinctive, though not obvious, traits of Ravel's music, mainly the virtuosity and the brilliance of harmonic color. [3] Xenakis uses, indeed, the whole range of the keyboard, constantly racing up and down and intersecting these passages with very complex chords or tone clusters .
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Pictures at an Exhibition [a] is a piano suite in ten movements, plus a recurring and varied Promenade theme, written in 1874 by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky.It is a musical depiction of a tour of an exhibition of works by architect and painter Viktor Hartmann put on at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, following his sudden death in the previous year.
Ravel in 1925. Joseph Maurice Ravel [n 1] (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) 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.
3 oboes 1 English horn 3 clarinets in B ♭ and A (the third doubling clarinet in E ♭) 1 bass clarinet in B ♭ 3 bassoons 1 contrabassoon. Brass. 8 horns in F 4 trumpets in C 3 trombones 1 bass trombone 1 tuba (or euphonium) Percussion. 6 timpani snare drum tambourine triangle cymbals bass drum tam-tam marimbaphone (or xylophone) vibraphone ...
In the years 1904–05, as he was finishing his String Quartet, Ravel composed Miroirs (Mirrors), a suite of five short piano pieces. [13] He later orchestrated two of them: the orchestral version of "Une Barque sur l'océan" (A Barque on the Ocean) came out in 1906; [14] more than a decade elapsed before Ravel orchestrated the other, the "Alborada del gracioso".
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Ravel completely reworked his idea of Wien into what became La valse, which was to have been written under commission from Serge Diaghilev as a ballet. However, he never produced the ballet. [6] After hearing a two-piano reduction performed by Ravel and Marcelle Meyer, Diaghilev said it was a "masterpiece" but rejected Ravel's work as "not a ...