Ravel M. Waltz. Choreographic poem for symphony orchestra. Pocket score, Compozitor Publishing House

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979-0-66004-529-9 Ravel M. Waltz. Choreographic poem for symphony orchestra. Pocket score, Compozitor Publishing House Saint-Petersburg

The orchestral work of Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) is truly one of the brightest and most original phenomena in French and world musical culture.
Continuing the traditions of impressionist aesthetics and at the same time freeing himself from its influence, the composer created in the art of orchestration a kind of fusion of innovation and classical traditions, and found unique colors. Ravel has transcribed for the symphony orchestra many of his piano pieces, as well as works by Debussy, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov.
In the middle of 1919, the famous Russian philanthropist Sergei Diaghilev approached Maurice Ravel with a proposal to create a ballet based on the material of the symphonic Waltz, which the composer had worked on before, but did not finish. By January 1, 1920, the score was ready. In his Autobiography, the composer writes: "I conceived this work as a kind of apotheosis of the Viennese waltz, which is being swallowed up by an ever-increasing crushing whirlwind."
The material of the Waltz is as close as possible to everyday Viennese music (in the spirit of the waltzes of Schubert, Brahms, I. Strauss) and is built as a choreographic poem, in which the logic and dynamics of Ravel's psychological symphonism come to the fore.

Pages: 136.
Soft cover.
Compozitor Publishing House – Saint-Petersburg.
ISBN/ISMN: 979-0-66004-529-9