Informationen zu "Menuet sur le nom de Haydn Klavier Buch"
Komponist/Autor: Maurice Ravel
Verlag: Éditions Durand
Verlagsnummer: DR01694600
EAN: 9990901376995
ISMN: M-044-09632-9
Beschreibung
It was Jules Écorcheville (1872–1915) who took the initiative in 1909 of organizing a unique commemoration of the centenary of the death of Joseph Haydn (1732–1809). The musicologist suggested to several French composers that they should write a piece based on the name of Haydn. It was on this occasion that Maurice Ravel composed the Menuet. Écorcheville’s initiative follows the tradition of the musical tombeau, a piece dedicated to the memory of a musician friend who has died. Particularly cultivated in the Baroque period, it re-emerged with renewed vigour in the early twentieth century, as witnessed by another famous piece by Ravel: the Tombeau de Couperin (1917).
