Classical Composer: | Debussy, Claude |
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Work: | Pour le piano: II. Sarabande (arr. M. Ravel for orchestra) |
Year Composed: | 1901 |
Instrumentation: | 2,2*,2,2-2,1-Tam-tam,Cym.-Hp.Str. |
Publishers: |
The Edwin A. Fleisher Music Collection Joubert & Cie |
Duration: | 00:04:00 |
Period: | 20th Century |
Work Category: | Orchestral |
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Ravel's name has often been associated with that of his compatriot Claude Debussy, a composer twelve years his senior. The two men were very different in character and in their music. Ravel had been one of the young supporters of Debussy and it was only later that their personal relationship cooled. There were rival supporters and rival claims of prior influence, and while Ravel retained his admiration of Debussy as a composer, he was well aware of the different paths that they pursued, not least in his discreet support for Debussy's first wife, deserted by Debussy in 1904 for his subsequent second wife, Emma Bardac. Debussy died in 1918 and in 1921 a number of important works by Debussy passed into the hands of the newly established publisher, Jean Jobert, after the death of Debussy's original publisher, Eugène Fromont. Jobert asked Ravel to orchestrate Sarabande, originally published in 1901 as the second of three pieces, Pour le piano. Marked Avec une élégance grave et lente, the Sarabande, in its orchestrated version, suggests still more the world of Pelléas et Mélisande.
Writer: Keith Anderson
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