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Maurice Ravel, the composer > Works

This list of Maurice Ravel’s works is listed in chronological order. It is extracted from the book Maurice Ravel by Marcel Marnat, published in 1986 by Fayard. An update has been made through the work of Manuel Cornejo, available on the blog Les Amis de Maurice Ravel under “Œuvres de Maurice Ravel (ordre chronologique)” (http://boleravel.blogspot.fr/2013/11/uvres-de-maurice-ravel-ordre.html).

The major works of Maurice Ravel are marked in red. Each work is presented according to the following model: title of the work, instrumentation, and date of composition.

  • La jeunesse d’Hercule, before 1888
  • Mouvement de Sonate, after 1887
  • Variations on a theme of Grieg, after 1887
  • Variations on a theme of Schumann, after 1887
  • Ballade de la reine morte d’aimer, melody for voice and piano based on a poem by Roland de Marès circa 1893
  • Sérénade grotesque, for piano,1893
  • Douze chants populaires corses, harmonized and arranged for voice and various instruments, 1895
  • Entre Cloches, 1895-1897
  • Un grand sommeil noir, melody for voice and piano based on a poem by Paul Verlaine, August 6, 1895
  • Menuet antique, for piano, November 1895
  • Habanera, November 1895
  • Sites auriculaires, two pieces for piano four hands, 1895-1897
  • Sainte, melody for voice and piano based on a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé, December 1896
  • D’Anne jouant de l’espinette, December 1896
  • La parade, for piano, 1896-1898
  • Sonata “n°1” for violin and piano, posthumous, April 1897
  • Valse, 1898 (?)
  • Chanson du rouet, melody for voice and piano based on a poem by Leconte de Lisle, June 2, 1898
  • Si morne!, melody for voice and piano based on a poem by Emile Verhaeren, November 1898
  • Schéhérazade (ouverture de féérie), for orchestra, November 1898
  • Olympia, late 1898 – early 1899
  • Pavane pour une infante défunte, for piano, early 1899
  • Fugue, 1899
  • D’Anne qui me jecta de la neige, December 10,1899
  • Callirhoé, January 1900
  • Fugue, May 1900
  • Fugue à quatre voix, May 31, 1900
  • Les Bayadères, May 1900
  • Prélude and Fugue, January 1901
  • Fugue, May 1901
  • Tout est lumière, May 1901
  • Myrrha, cantata, entry for the Prix de Rome, June 1901
  • Jeux d’eau, for piano, November 11,1901
  • Sémiramis, January 1902
  • Sirènes, early 1902
  • Fugue, spring 1902
  • La nuit, spring 1902
  • Alcyone, cantata entry for the Prix de Rome, June 1902
  • Margot la Rouge, reduction for voice a piano of the opera by Frederick Delius based on a libretto by Rosenval, 1902
  • String Quartet, in four movements, Allegro moderato (I.) et Assez vif. Très rythmé (II.) December 1902, Très lent (III.) and Vif et agité (IV.) April 1903
  • Fugue, 1903
  • Matinée de Provence, spring 1903
  • Alyssa, cantata entry for the Prix de Rome, June 1903
  • Manteau de fleurs, melody for voice and piano based on a poem by Paul Gravollet, 1903
  • Schéhérazade, three melodies for voice and orchestra based on poems by Tristan Klingsor (Asie, La Flûte enchantée, L’indifférent), 1903
  • Sonatine, 1903-1905
  • Quel galant m’est comparable, February 1904
  • Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques, February 1904
  • A vous, oiseaux des plaines, February 1904
  • Chanson du pâtre épirote, February 1904
  • Mon mouchoir, hélas, est perdu, February 1904 – (chanson populaire grecque)
  • Menuet, 1904
  • Miroirs suite of five pieces for piano (Noctuelles, Oiseaux tristes, Une Barque sur l’océan, Alborada del gracioso, La Vallée des cloches), 1904 – late 1905
  • Fugue, May 1905
  • L’Aurore, May 1905
  • Introduction and Allegro, septet for harp, string quartet, flute and clarinet, June 1905
  • Noël des jouets, melody for voice and piano based on texts by Maurice Ravel, December (?) 1905
  • Chanson de la mariée, late 1905 or early 1906
  • Là-bas, vers l’église, late 1905 or early 1906
  • Tout gai!, late 1905 or early 1906
  • Les Grands vents venus d’outre-mer, melody for voice and piano based on a poem by Henri de Régnier, 1906
  • La Cloche engloutie, 1906-1912 or 1913
  • Histoires naturelles, five melodies for voice and piano based on texts by Jules Renard (Le Paon, Le Grillon, Le Cygne, Le Martin-pêcheur, La Pintade), October-December 1906
  • Feria, 1907-1908
  • Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera, melody for voice and piano, March 1907
  • L’Heure espagnole, opera based on a libretto by Franc-Nohain, April-October 1907 then 1911
  • Sur l’herbe, melody for voice and piano based on a poem by Paul Verlaine, June 6, 1907
  • Rapsodie espagnole, summer 1907 (2 pianos), February 1908 (orch.)
  • Tripatos (Danse chantée), mélodie populaire grecque for voice and piano, 1907
  • Gaspard de la nuit, suite of three pieces for piano inspired by poems by Aloysius Bertrand (Ondine, Le Gibet, Scarbo), May – September 5, 1908
  • Ma mère l’Oye (Mother Goose) (I), five pieces for piano, four hands, (Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant, Le Petit Poucet, Laideronnette, Impératrice des Pagodes, Les entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête, Le jardin féérique) 1908-1910
  • Pavane de la Belle au Bois Dormant, September 20, 1908
  • Chanson écossaise, February 1909 (?)
  • Trois Nocturnes, transcription for two pianos, four hands from the music for orchestra and female chorus by Claude Debussy (Nuages, Fêtes, Sirènes) early 1909
  • Daphnis et Chloé, for orchestra and chorus, June 1909 – April 1912, ballet version, 1912
  • Menuet sur le nom de Haydn, for piano, September 1909
  • Antar, partial reorchestration based on a libretto by Chékry Ganem for the opera by Rimsky Korsakov, late 1909
  • Saint François d’Assise (or Fioretti de saint François (?)), 1909-1910 (?)
  • Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, (Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun) transcription for piano two hands from the orchestral piece by Claude Debussy, early 1910
  • Chants populaires, four songs for voice and piano (Chanson espagnole, Chanson française, Chanson italienne, Chanson hébraïque), early 1910
  • Prélude pour le fils des étoiles, late 1910 – early 1911
  • Valses nobles et sentimentales, suite of eight pieces for piano, early 1911
  • Ma mère l’Oye (Mother Goose) (II), ballet version, 1911 – early 1912
  • Adélaïde ou le langage des fleurs, orchestration of the suite for piano Valses nobles et sentimentales of 1911, ballet version, 1912
  • A la manière de… Borodine, for piano, 1912
  • A la manière de… Chabrier, for piano, 1912
  • Khovantschina, reorchestration of several extracts from the opera by Modest Mussorgsky already orchestrated by Rimsky Korsakov, March – June 1913
  • Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, three melodies for voice, flute, piccolo, clarinet, string quartet and piano (Soupir, Placet futile, Surgi de la croupe et du bond) April 2 – August 1913
  • Prélude, for piano, May 1913
  • Zaspiak-Bat, summer 1913 – summer 1914
  • Les Sylphides, orchestration of piano pieces by Frédéric Chopin, early 1914
  • Carnaval, orchestration of the suite for piano op. 9 of Robert Schumann, 1914
  • Trio in A major, for violin, cello and piano in four movements (Modéré, Pantoum, Passacaille, Final), April 3 – August 29, 1914
  • Deux Mélodies hébraïques, melodies for voice and piano (Kaddisch, l’Enigme éternelle), May 1914
  • Le Tombeau de Couperin, suite of six pieces for piano (Prélude, Fugue, Forlane, Rigaudon, Menuet, Toccata), July 1914 and June – November 1917, ballet version, 1920
  • Trois chansons for unaccompanied mixed choir based on texts by Maurice Ravel (Nicolette, Trois beaux oiseaux du paradis, Ronde), December 1914 – February 1915
  • Menuet pompeux, late 1917 – early 1918
  • Frontispice, for two pianos, five hands, June 1918
  • La Valse, for orchestra, December 1919 – April 1920

 

Works composed either entirely or in part at Montfort l’Amaury

 

  • L’Enfant et les sortilèges, opera based on a libretto by Colette,1920 – March 1925
  • Sonata for violin and cello (Allegro, Très vif, Lent Vif, Avec Entrain) April – summer 1920 (1st movement). The rest was composed at different times before being finished in February 1922
  • Pictures at an Exhibition, orchestration of the suite for piano by Modest Mussorgsky, May – September 1922
  • Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré, for violin and piano, September 1922
  • Sarabande and Danse, orchestration of pieces by Claude Debussy November – December 1922
  • Ronsard à son âme, melody for voice and piano based on a poem by Ronsard, 1923 – January 1924
  • Sonate n°2 for violin and piano (Allegretto, Blues, Perpetuum mobile), 1923-1927
  • Tzigane, concert rhapsody, for violin and piano, 1924
  • Chansons madécasses, three songs for voice, flute, cello and piano based on poems by Evariste Parny (Nahandove, Aoua! Il est doux) April 1925 – April 1926
  • Rêves, melody for voice and piano based on a poem by Léon-Paul Fargue, February 1927
  • Fanfare, for the collaborative work L’Eventail de Jeanne, for orchestra, early 1927
  • Boléro, for orchestra, July – October 1928, ballet version 1928
  • Concerto for the left hand in D major, for piano and orchestra, 1929-1930
  • Concerto in G major, for piano and orchestra in three movements (Allegramente, Adagio, Presto), 1929 – November 1931
  • Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, three melodies for voice and orchestra based on texts by Paul Morand (Chanson romanesque, Chanson épique, Chanson à boire) 1932-1933
  • Morgiane, 1932