Maurice Ravel: Ravel, M: Gaspard de la nuit

Kurzbeschreibung

Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit ranks among the most important piano works of the 20th century and, as it were, represents the pinnacle of the extension of the piano playing techniques and tonal possibilities which started in the 19th century. Ravel took poems by Aloysius Bertrand as a basis of the three movements Ondine, Le Gibet and Scarbo. Thus, he follows the 19th-century tradition to combine instrumental music with literary works. The new edition of Wiener Urtext Edition not only consulted the first edition, which has been used almost exclusively up to now, but also Ravel's autograph and his personal copy of the first edition on the basis of which numerous passages in the musical text could be corrected. Additional information from personal copies of Ravel pupils are analysed in the Notes on Interpretation. The edition in the reader-friendly large Wiener Urtext format is completed by a glossary in three languages of the French performance instructions used by Ravel as well as English and German translations of the three poems by Bertrand.
Instrumentation:
piano

Beschreibung

Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit is one of the most important piano works of the 20th century and constitutes the height of the extension of the pianistic playing techniques and tonal possibilites which was already begun by Chopin and Liszt in the 19th century. The three movements Ondine, Le Gibet and Scarbo are based on poems by Aloysius Bertrand which Ravel put in front of each of the three pieces. Thus, too, the work is in a tradition, represented by composers such as Schumann and Liszt in the 19th century, that combines instrumental music with literary models. For the new edition published by the Wiener Urtext Edition, the editors consulted not only the first edition used almost exclusively up to now, but also Ravel's autograph as well as his personal copy of the first edition on the basis of which numerous passages in the musical text could be corrected and brought closer to Ravel's original intention. In addition, the editors included corrections from personal copies of various students of Ravel. Entries of the composer going well beyond mere text corrections and practical performance tips handed down by his students are analysed in the Notes of Interpretation. The reader-friendly large-format Wiener Urtext edition is completed by a trilingual glossary of the French performance instructions used by Ravel as well as English and German translations of Bertrand's three poems.
Instrumentation:
piano

Inhaltsangabe

Preface - Notes on interpretation - Facsimile - Ondine - Le Gibet - Scarbo - Glossary - Critical Notes

Klappentext

Maurice Ravels Gaspard de la nuit zählt zu den bedeutendsten Klavierwerken des 20. Jahrhunderts und bildet gleichsam den Gipfel der bereits im 19. Jahrhundert begonnenen Erweiterung der pianistischen Spieltechniken und Klangmöglichkeiten. Den drei Sätzen, Ondine, Le Gibet und Scarbo, legt Ravel Gedichte von Aloysius Bertrand zugrunde. Auch damit steht er in einer Tradition des 19. Jahrhunderts, Instrumentalmusik mit literarischen Vorlagen zu verbinden. Die Neuausgabe der Wiener Urtext Edition zieht neben der bislang fast ausschließlich gebräuchlichen Erstausgabe Ravels Autograph sowie dessen Handexemplar des Erstdrucks heran, aufgrund derer zahlreiche Stellen im Notentext korrigiert werden können. Zusatzinformationen aus Handexemplaren von Schülern Ravels werden in den Interpretationshinweisen ausgewertet. Ein dreisprachiges Glossar der von Ravel verwendeten französischen Vortragsbezeichnungen sowie englische und deutsche Übersetzungen der drei Gedichte Bertrands runden die Ausgabe im lesefreundlichen Wiener-Urtext-Großformat ab.

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