La Valse
Maurice Ravel
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La Valse by Maurice Ravel
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The composer originally intended this as a ballet (as early as 1906), but now it’s more often performed as a concert work. He returned to this waltz after the end of World War I, and it premiered in Paris in December 1920 as a piece for orchestra patterned after Viennese waltzes. Concurrently with t...
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Who wrote La Valse's ?
La Valse was written by Maurice Ravel.
When did Maurice Ravel release La Valse?
Maurice Ravel released La Valse on Sun Dec 12 1920.
What did Maurice Ravel say about "La Valse"?
Ravel placed a written note as a preface to the score:
Through whirling clouds, waltzing couples may be faintly distinguished. The clouds gradually scatter: one sees at letter A an immense hall peopled with a whirling crowd. The scene is gradually illuminated. The light of the chandeliers bursts fo...
Is there a live performance of "La Valse" by Maurice Ravel?
Pablo Heras-Casado and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony
Myung-Whun Chung and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Leonard Bernstein and the Orchestre National de France
Gustavo Dudamel and the Sinfónica Simón Bolívar
Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic
Jean-Christophe Spinosi and the Frank...