List of compositions by Maurice Ravel explained

This is a complete list of compositions by Maurice Ravel, initially categorized by genre, and sorted within each genre chronologically in order of date the composition was completed. Catalogue "M" numbers were assigned by the musicologist Marcel Marnat according to date of composition. Arrangements by Ravel of his own works were assigned the "M" number of the original followed by a letter (a, b, c, etc.). Arrangements by Ravel of other composers' works or of "traditional" music were assigned a separate "MA" number, in order of date of arrangement.

List of compositions

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TitleScoringDateNotes

Orchestra

data-sort-value="47a"43aUne Barque sur l'océanOrchestra1906Orchestration of M. 43 No. 3;1st version
54Rapsodie espagnoleOrchestra1907
data-sort-value="58d"A15Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Antar

Orchestra1909Incidental music to a 5-act play by Chékry-Ganem;partial reorchestration of most of the symphonic poem Antar Op. 9, the movements reordered and interspersed with reorchestrated fragments of the same work, a fragment of the opera Mlada, orchestrated fragments of songs from the Romances Op. 4 and Op. 7, and an extract from Félicien David's composition Le Désert, all included as the basis for new music by Ravel mostly in the style of Rimsky-Korsakov used as interconnecting pieces with the larger Antar movements;
  • the orchestral score of the song fragments and David's piece are lost, though the song fragments exist in the piano reduction
data-sort-value="58f"19aPavane pour une infante défunteOrchestra1910Orchestration of M. 19
data-sort-value="60d"57aDaphnis et Chloé Suite No. 1Orchestra1911Extracted and arranged from the ballet M. 57
data-sort-value="60e"60aMa mère l'OyeOrchestra1911Orchestration of M. 60
data-sort-value="61a"A18Erik Satie

Préludes pour Le Fils des étoiles

Piano1910–11originally for piano, new orchestration of No. 1;
  • found;
  • planned new orchestration of all 3 preludes, only first was completed
data-sort-value="62b"57bDaphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2Orchestra1913Extracted and arranged from the ballet M. 57
data-sort-value="65a"A19Modest Mussorgsky

Khovanshchina, opera

Orchestra1913Orchestration completed, some parts re-orchestrated, and edited, in collaboration with Igor Stravinsky from the score by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
data-sort-value="67a"A20Frédéric Chopin

Les Sylphides, ballet

Orchestra1914New orchestration of various piano pieces arranged as a ballet for Vaslav Nijinsky's new ballet company;[1]
  • lost
data-sort-value="67b"A21Robert Schumann

Carnaval, ballet

Orchestra1914New orchestration of the suite for piano Op. 9 for Vaslav Nijinsky's new ballet company;
  • project abandoned;
  • only 3 of the 20 pieces survive, the remaining 17 are either lost or were never written
data-sort-value="69c"43cAlborada del graciosoOrchestra1918Orchestration of M. 43 No. 4
data-sort-value="70a"A23Emmanuel Chabrier

Menuet pompeux

Orchestra1917–18No. 9 of Pièces pittoresques;originally for piano, orchestration for the Sergei Diaghilev ballet Las Meninas (Les Jardins d'Aranjuez)
data-sort-value="70b"68aLe Tombeau de CouperinOrchestra1919Orchestration of 4 pieces (reordered) from M. 68
data-sort-value="74a"A24Modest Mussorgsky

Tableaux d'une exposition (Pictures at an Exhibition), suite

Orchestra1922Originally for piano, orchestration (omitting the last "Promenade")
data-sort-value="74b"A25Claude Debussy

Sarabande

Orchestra1922No. 2 of Pour le piano, originally for piano, orchestration;
  • published as No. 1 of Sarabande et Danse
data-sort-value="74c"A26Claude Debussy

Danse (Tarantelle styrienne)

Orchestra1922Originally for piano, orchestration;
  • published as No. 2 of Sarabande et Danse
data-sort-value="76c"43bUne Barque sur l'océanOrchestra1926Orchestration of M 43 No. 3;revised version;
  • lost, possibly never written
data-sort-value="81c"7aMenuet antiqueOrchestra1929orchestration of M 7

Concertante

66Zaspiak-BatPiano and orchestra1913–14Based on Basque themes;
  • sketches only
76aTzigane, Rapsodie de concertViolin and orchestra1924Orchestration of M 76
82Concerto for the Left Hand (in D major)Piano and orchestra1929–30
83Concerto in G (major)Piano and orchestra1929–31

Chamber

12Sonate (No. 1)Violin and piano18971st movement only;
  • published posthumously
35String Quartet in F majorString quartet1902–03
46Introduction et AllegroHarp, flute, clarinet, and string quartet1905
67Trio in A minorPiano, violin, and cello1914
data-sort-value="72c"73aDuo for Le Tombeau de Claude DebussyViolin and cello1920No. 1 of the multi-composer collection;early version of Allegro (1st) movement of Sonate M 73
73Sonate (in A minor)Violin and cello1920–22
74Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel FauréViolin and piano1922
data-sort-value="75a"76bTziganeViolin and piano with luthéal attachment1922–24Alternate original version of M 76
76TziganeViolin and piano1922–24
data-sort-value="78a"77Sonate (No. 2) in G majorViolin and piano1923–27

Piano solo

data-sort-value="01"1Piano SonataPiano18881st movement only;
  • student exercise;
  • lost
data-sort-value="02"2Variations on a Theme of GriegPiano1888Theme: Death of Åse from Peer Gynt;
  • student exercise;
  • lost
data-sort-value="03"3Variations on a Theme of SchumannPiano1888Theme: Chorale Freu dich, o meine Seele from "Album for the Young", Op. 68;
  • student exercise;
  • lost
data-sort-value="05"5Sérénade grotesquePiano1892–93
  • Discovered and published posthumously
data-sort-value="07"7Menuet antiquePiano1895
11La Parade, balletPiano1896
  • Piano sketch only, comprising 2 waltzes, 2 marches, and a mazurka;
  • Discovered and published posthumously
14Valse in D majorPiano1898
  • Lost
19Pavane pour une infante défuntePiano1899"
20FuguePiano1899"
  • Prix de Rome essay competition;
  • Lost, possibly auctioned score held by Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer[2]
23Fugue in D majorPiano1900
  • Possibly still survives as unofficial copies exist online
24Fugue à quatre voix on a theme of Reber in F majorPiano1900
  • Lost
26Prélude et FuguePiano1900
  • Student competition;
  • Lost, possibly auctioned score by Osenat[3]
27Fugue in F majorPiano1900
  • Prix de Rome competition;
  • May be the "D Minor Fugue" in the Morgan Library & Museum Collection.[4]
  • Possibly still survives as unofficial copies exist online
30Jeux d'eauPiano1901
32Fugue in B majorPiano1902
  • Prix de Rome competition;
  • Published in Irony and Sound by Stephen Zank
data-sort-value="34b"A3Frederick Delius

Margot la Rouge, opera

Piano1902Reduction of orchestra part for piano
36Fugue in E minorPiano1903
  • Prix de Rome competition;
  • Lost, possibly the incomplete E flat major fugue held by Lion Heart Autographs[5]
42Menuet in C minorPiano1904
data-sort-value="42f"40SonatinePiano1903–05First movement written for a competition sponsored by a Parisian magazine[6]
43MiroirsPiano1904–05
44Fugue in C majorPiano1905
  • Prix de Rome competition;
  • Possibly still survives as unofficial copies exist online
55Gaspard de la nuitPiano1908Based on 3 poems by Aloysius Bertrand
58Menuet sur le nom d'HaydnPiano1909
data-sort-value="58e"A15aNikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Antar, incidental music

Piano1909Reduction for piano of M. A15
data-sort-value="58g"57dDaphnis et Chloé, balletPiano1910original version for piano of M. 57
61Valses nobles et sentimentalesPiano1911
data-sort-value="62c"57cDanse gracieuse de Daphnis, suitePiano1913Transcription from Daphnis et Chloé ballet M. 57
63À la manière de...Piano1912–13The Chabrier piece is a paraphrase on an aria from Gounod's Faust
65PréludePiano1913
data-sort-value="69b"68Le Tombeau de CouperinPiano1914–17
72bLa ValsePiano1920Transcription of M. 72
80bFanfare for L'éventail de Jeanne, children's balletPiano1927Reduction for piano of M. 80
81aBoléroPiano1929Transcription of M. 81

Piano duet

data-sort-value="00a"A1Camille Saint-Saëns

La jeunesse d'Hercule, symphonic poem, Op. 50

Piano four hands1887Originally for orchestra, arrangement
data-sort-value="08"8HabaneraTwo pianos1895
  • Published as No. 1 of Sites auriculaires, with M. 13;
  • Used later as No. 3 of Rapsodie espagnole M. 54a
13Entre ClochesTwo pianos1897
  • Published as No. 2 of Sites auriculaires, with M. 8
data-sort-value="16a"17aShéhérazadePiano four hands1898Original version of Overture M. 17
data-sort-value="34a"A2Claude Debussy

Sirènes

Two pianos1902No. 3 of Nocturnes;originally for orchestra and female chorus, arrangement;1st version
data-sort-value="53a"54aRapsodie espagnoleTwo pianos1907Original version of M. 54;
  • III. Habanera, identical to M 8
56Pavane de la Belle au bois dormantPiano four hands1908Inspired by Charles Perrault;
  • used later as No. 1 of Ma mère l'Oye M. 60
data-sort-value="58c"A14Claude Debussy

Trois nocturnes

Two pianos1909Originally for orchestra, arrangement;composed with Debussy's stepson and pupil Raoul Bardac;

III. Sirènes, 2nd version

60Ma mère l'Oye ("Mother Goose"), children's piecesPiano four hands1908–10Inspired by the tales of Charles Perrault and Madame d'Aulnoy;
  • I. Pavane, identical to M. 56
data-sort-value="60a"A16Claude Debussy

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Piano four hands1910Originally for orchestra, transcription
70FrontispiceTwo pianos five hands1918For S.P. 503: Le Poème du Vardar by Ricciotto Canudo
72aLa ValseTwo pianos1920Transcription of M. 72
data-sort-value="80c"80aFanfarePiano four hands1927Transcription of M. 80
81bBoléroPiano four hands1929Transcription of M. 81
82aConcerto for the Left HandTwo pianos1930Reduction of orchestra part of M. 82 for piano
83aConcerto in GTwo pianos1932Reduction of orchestra part of M. 83 for second piano

Stage

17Shéhérazade, Ouverture de féerieOrchestra1898Originally intended as an opera, after "One Thousand and One Nights";
  • abandoned, only Overture completed and premiered separately as a concert piece
18OlympiaOpera1898–99"After E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann ("The Sandman");
  • sketches destroyed except for a Symphonie horlogère incorporated into the opening of L'heure espagnole M. 52
data-sort-value="60c"52L'Heure espagnole ("The Spanish Hour")Opera1907–11Libretto: Franc-Nohain
data-sort-value="61b"49La Cloche engloutie ("The Sunken Clock")Opera1906–12After Gerhart Hauptmann's Die versunkene Glocke;
  • planned work, sketches (if any) were destroyed by Ravel
data-sort-value="61c"57Daphnis et ChloéBallet1909–12
data-sort-value="61d"61aAdélaïde ou le langage des fleurs (Adelaide, or The Language of Flowers)Ballet1912Orchestration of Valses nobles et sentimentales M. 61
62Ma Mère l'Oye ("Mother Goose")Ballet1911–12Orchestral version (M. 60a) with new music added (2 new opening pieces plus 4 new interludes);
  • III. identical to M. 60a I;
  • V. identical to M. 60a IV;
  • VII. identical to M. 60a II;
  • IX. identical to M. 60a III;
  • XI. identical to M. 60a V
72La Valse, Poème chorégraphiqueBallet1919–20
  • Sketches 1906
data-sort-value="76b"71L'Enfant et les sortilèges, Fantaisie lyrique ("The Child and the Spells"), operetta-ballet8 solo voices, mixed choir, children's choir, and orchestra with piano luthéal1917–25Libretto by Colette
80Fanfare for L'éventail de Jeanne, children's balletBallet with small orchestra1927No. 1 (Prélude) of the collective composition (by 10 French composers)
81BoléroBallet1928
85Morgiane, oratorio-balletVocal soloists, choir, and orchestra1932Libretto after "One Thousand and One Nights";
  • sketches only
data-sort-value="85b"84Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, song cycleBaritone and orchestra1933Text: Paul Morand, originally intended as film music for G.W. Pabst's 1933 film Don Quixote but Ravel's music was not used;
  • unfinished, originally projected as 4 songs plus incidental music, but only 3 songs completed
86Jeanne d'Arc ("Joan of Arc")Opera1930sAfter Joseph Delteil's Jeanne d'Arc, planned for the Paris Opéra;
  • unrealised project

Choral

22CallerhoeCantata1900
  • Prix de Rome essay competition;
  • Partially lost
25Les BayadèresSoprano, mixed choir, and orchestra1900
  • Prix de Rome competition
28Tout est lumièreSoprano, mixed choir, and orchestra1901
  • Prix de Rome competition
29Myrrha, cantataSoprano, tenor, baritone, and orchestra1901
  • Text by Fernand Beissier;
  • Prix de Rome competition
31SemiramisCantata1902
  • Student competition;
  • Partially lost
33La NuitSoprano, mixed choir, and orchestra1902
  • Prix de Rome competition
34AlcyoneSoprano, alto, tenor, and orchestra1902Text by Eugène et Edouard Adenis;
  • Prix de Rome competition
37Matinée en ProvenceSoprano, mixed choir, and orchestra1903
  • Prix de Rome competition
38Alyssa, cantataSoprano, tenor, baritone, and orchestra1903Text by Marguerite Coiffier;
  • Prix de Rome competition
45L'AuroreTenor, mixed choir, and orchestra1905
  • Prix de Rome competition
59Saint François d'AssiseSoloists, choir, and orchestra1909–10
  • Lost
69Trois chansonsMixed choir1914–15Lyrics by Ravel

Solo voice with orchestra

39aManteau des fleursVoice and orchestra1903?Orchestration of M. 39
41Shéhérazade, poemsSoprano/tenor and orchestra1903Text: Tristan Klingsor
data-sort-value="47b"47aNoël des jouetsVoice and orchestra1906Orchestration of M. 47;1st version
data-sort-value="62a"47bNoël des jouetsVoice and orchestra1913Orchestration of M. 47;revised version
64Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, song cycleMedium voice, piccolo, 2 flutes, clarinet, bass clarinet, string quartet, and piano1913Text: Stéphane Mallarmé
78Chansons madécasses ("Madagascan Songs"), song cycleSoprano, flute, cello, and piano1925–26Text: Evariste-Désiré Parny de Forges
data-sort-value="85c"75aRonsard à son âmeVoice and orchestra1935Orchestration of M. 75

Solo voice with piano

data-sort-value="04"4Ballade de la reine morte d'aimer, songVoice and piano1893Text: Roland de Marès
data-sort-value="06"6Un grand sommeil noir, songDeep voice and piano1895Text: Paul Verlaine
data-sort-value="09"9Sainte, songVoice and piano1896Text: Stéphane Mallarmé
10D'Anne jouant l'espinette, songVoice and harpsichord/piano1896Text: Clément Marot
15Chanson du rouet, songVoice and piano1898Text: Leconte de Lisle
16Si Morne!, songVoice and piano1898Text: Émile Verhaeren
21D'Anne qui me jecta de la neige, songVoice and piano1899"Text: Clément Marot
39Manteau des fleurs, songVoice and piano1903Text by Paul Gravollet-style="vertical-align: top"|data-sort-value="42a"|A4|Quel galant m'est comparable, song|Voice and piano|1904|Text: Greek traditional, in French translation by Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi;
  • published as No. 3 of Cinq mélodies populaires grecques ("Five Greek Folk Songs")

|-style="vertical-align: top"|data-sort-value="42b"|A5|Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques, song|Voice and piano|1904|Text: Greek traditional, in French translation by Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi;

  • published as No. 4 of Cinq mélodies populaires grecques ("Five Greek Folk Songs")

|-style="vertical-align: top"|data-sort-value="42c"|A6|À vous, oiseaux des plaines, song|Voice and piano|1904|Text: Greek traditional, in French translation by Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi;

  • lost

|-style="vertical-align: top"|data-sort-value="42d"|A7|Chanson du pâtre épirote, song|Voice and piano|1904|Text: Greek traditional, in French translation by Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi;

  • lost

|-style="vertical-align: top"|data-sort-value="42e"|A8|Mon mouchoir, hélas, est perdu, song|Voice and piano|1904|Text: Greek traditional, in French translation by Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi;

  • lost

|-style="vertical-align: top"|47|Noël des jouets ("The Toys' Christmas"), song|Voice and piano|1905|Lyrics by Ravel

|-style="vertical-align: top"|48|Les grands Vents venus d'outre-mer, song|Voice and piano|1906|Text: Henri de Régnier

|-style="vertical-align: top"|50|Histoires naturelles ("Natural Histories"), song cycle|Medium voice and piano|1906|Text: Jules Renard

|-style="vertical-align: top"|data-sort-value="50a"|A9|Chanson de la mariée, song|Voice and piano|1905–06|Text: Greek traditional, in French translation by Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi;

  • published as No. 1 of Cinq mélodies populaires grecques ("Five Greek Folk Songs")

|-style="vertical-align: top"|data-sort-value="50b"|A10|Là-bas, vers l'église, song|Voice and piano|1905–06|Text: Greek traditional, in French translation by Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi;

  • published as No. 2 of Cinq mélodies populaires grecques ("Five Greek Folk Songs")

|-style="vertical-align: top"|data-sort-value="50c"|A11|Tout gai!, song|Voice and piano|1905–06|Text: Greek traditional, in French translation by Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi;

  • published as No. 5 of Cinq mélodies populaires grecques ("Five Greek Folk Songs")

|-style="vertical-align: top"|51|Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera, song|Deep voice and piano|1907|

|-style="vertical-align: top"|53|Sur l'herbe, song|Voice and piano|1907|Text: Paul Verlaine

|-style="vertical-align: top"|data-sort-value="58a"|A12|Chanson écossaise: Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon ("Scottish Song"), song|Voice and piano|1909|Text: Robert Burns, in English

|-style="vertical-align: top"|data-sort-value="58b"|A13|Tripatos: Kherya pou dhen idhen ilyos, song|Voice and piano|1909|Text: Greek traditional, in Greek

|-style="vertical-align: top"|data-sort-value="60b"|A17|Chants populaires ("Folk Songs"), songs|Medium voice and piano|1910|1. Text: Spanish traditional, in Galician;2. Text: French traditional, in Limousin;

3. Text: Italian traditional, in Italian;

4. Text: Hebrew traditional, in Yiddish and Hebrew

|-style="vertical-align: top"|64a|Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, song cycle|Voice and piano|1913|Transcription of M. 64

|-style="vertical-align: top"|data-sort-value="67c"|A22|Deux mélodies hébraïques ("Two Hebrew Songs"), songs|Voice and piano|1914|1. Text: Hebrew traditional, in Aramaic;2. Text: Hebrew traditional, in Yiddish

|-style="vertical-align: top"|69a|Trois chansons|Medium voice and piano|1915|Arrangement of M. 69

|-style="vertical-align: top"|75|Ronsard à son âme, song|Voice and piano|1923–24|Text: Pierre de Ronsard

|-style="vertical-align: top"|79|Rêves, song|Voice and piano|1927|Text: Léon-Paul Fargue

|-style="vertical-align: top"|data-sort-value="85a"|84a|Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, song cycle|Baritone and piano|1932–33|Original version of M. 84|}

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Zank, Stephen . 2005 . [{{google books|plainurl=y|id=tKGNUoSTprsC}} Maurice Ravel: A Guide to Research ]. . New York . 266 . 978-0-8153-1618-3 .
  2. Web site: Autograph musical manuscript. by Ravel, Maurice, French composer, pianist and conductor (1875-1937).: Manuscript / Paper Collectible Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH . 2023-08-05 . www.abebooks.com . en.
  3. Web site: Invaluable . Lot 112: RAVEL (Maurice). Manuscrit musical autographe. 8 s… .
  4. Web site: 2021-07-09 . Fugue in D minor : autograph manuscript, 1900 March 28. . 2023-08-05 . The Morgan Library & Museum . en.
  5. Web site: Ravel Autograph Musical Ms. on a “Subject” by Massenet & a Minor Thought on Beethoven Lion Heart Autographs . 2023-08-05 . Lion Heart Autographs . en-US.
  6. Web site: Dowling . Richard . Joplin Centennial 2017: The Complete Piano Works of Scott Joplin by Richard Dowling . richard-dowling.com . 1937-12-28 . 2024-01-06.

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