Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Instrumentation (this edition): Orchestra Originally for: Piano Work: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61 Binding: ISMN: 9790004213490 Size: 9.8 x 12.6 inches Pages: 92 Urtext / Critical Edition Look Inside! PDF Preview Description Ravel needed only two weeks of intensive concentration to orchestrate his piano suite Valses nobles et sentimentales , which was given its premiere performance in March 1911. Consisting of seven waltzes and one epilogue, the work stamped Ravel as a creative personality whose masterpiece breathed an "unbelievably new kind of musicality and incredibly intensive poetry." Let us not forget that this was twelve years before La Valse , with which it shares a number of similarities.