RAVEL, MAURICE

Additional reading Biographical works, most of which also contain lists of Ravel's compositions, include Rollo H. Myers, Ravel: Life and Works (1960, reprinted 1973); Vladimir Janklvitch, Ravel (1959, reprinted 1976); Norman Demuth, Ravel (1947, reprinted 1979); Victor I. Seroff, Maurice Ravel (1953, reprinted 1970); and Roger Nichols, Ravel (1977), and Ravel Remembered (1987). Arbie Orenstein (ed.), A Ravel Reader: Correspondence, Articles, Interviews (1989), is an informative collection. Burnett James, Ravel, His Life and Times (1983), explores the works and social background of the composer. Other analyses of Ravel's music include H.H. Stuckenschmidt, Maurice Ravel: Variations of His Life and Work (1968); Laurence Davies, Ravel Orchestral Music (1970); Marguerite Long, At the Piano with Ravel (1973); Vlado Perlemuter and Hlne Jourdan-Morhange, Ravel According to Ravel (1988); and Arbie Orenstein, Ravel: Man and Musician (1975). Major Works: Stage works. Ballet: Daphnis et Chlo (first performed 1912; also two suites for orchestra); La Valse (1920); Bolro (1928; also arranged for piano and piano, four hands). Opera: L'Heure espagnole (1911); L'Enfant et les sortilges (1925). Orchestral works. Orchestra alone: Shhrazade, overture (1898); Pavane pour une infante dfunte (completed 1899); Rapsodie espagnole (1907). Solo instrument and orchestra: Tzigane, for violin and piano or orchestra (1924); Piano Concerto in G Major (1931); Piano Concerto in D Major for Left Hand (1931). Chamber music. String Quartet (1903); Introduction et allegro, for solo harp, string quartet, flute, and clarinet (1905); Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (1914); Sonata for Violin and Cello (1922); Sonata for Violin and Piano (1927). Piano music: Jeux d'eau, for piano solo (1901); Miroirs (1905, basis for a later ballet); Sonatine (1905); Ma mre l'Oye, piano, four hands (1908, later orchestrated and made into a ballet); Gaspard de la nuit (1908); Le Tombeau de Couperin (1917, later orchestrated); Valses, nobles et sentimentales (1911, later orchestrated and made into a ballet). Vocal music. Song cycles: Shhrazade, for voice and piano or orchestra (1903); Histoires naturelles, for voice and piano (1906); Trois pomes de Stphane Mallarm, for voice, piano, string quartet, two flutes, and two clarinets (1913); Chansons madcasses, for voice, piano, cello, and flute (1926); Don Quichotte Dulcine, for voice and piano (1932). Orchestrations of works by other composers. Menuet pompeux (1918), from Dix pices pittoresques (1880) by Emmanuel Chabrier; Pictures from an Exhibition (1922), a piano suite by Modest Mussorgsky.