Gaspard de la nuit
E205929
Gaspard de la nuit is a notoriously difficult three-movement piano suite by Maurice Ravel, inspired by Aloysius Bertrand’s dark, fantastical prose poems.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gaspard de la Nuit (literary character) | 1 |
| Gaspard de la nuit canonical | 1 |
| Gaspard de la nuit: Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot | 1 |
| Gaspard of the Night | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1845786 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gaspard de la nuit Context triple: [Maurice Ravel, notableWork, Gaspard de la nuit]
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A.
L’Après-midi d’un faune
L’Après-midi d’un faune is a symbolist poem by Stéphane Mallarmé that portrays the dreamy, sensual reverie of a faun reflecting on his encounters with nymphs.
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B.
Les Abymes
Les Abymes is a major urban commune in the French Caribbean territory of Guadeloupe, forming part of the Pointe-à-Pitre metropolitan area and serving as an important economic and transportation hub.
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C.
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is a dark, psychologically complex novel by Herman Melville that explores identity, morality, and family secrets in a Gothic, experimental style.
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D.
La Peau de chagrin
La Peau de chagrin is a philosophical novel by Honoré de Balzac that explores themes of desire, power, and mortality through a magical talisman that grants wishes while shrinking with each use.
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E.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is a modernist, semi-autobiographical novel presented as the fragmented diary of a young poet confronting urban alienation, memory, and the nature of existence.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gaspard de la nuit Target entity description: Gaspard de la nuit is a notoriously difficult three-movement piano suite by Maurice Ravel, inspired by Aloysius Bertrand’s dark, fantastical prose poems.
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A.
L’Après-midi d’un faune
L’Après-midi d’un faune is a symbolist poem by Stéphane Mallarmé that portrays the dreamy, sensual reverie of a faun reflecting on his encounters with nymphs.
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B.
Les Abymes
Les Abymes is a major urban commune in the French Caribbean territory of Guadeloupe, forming part of the Pointe-à-Pitre metropolitan area and serving as an important economic and transportation hub.
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C.
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is a dark, psychologically complex novel by Herman Melville that explores identity, morality, and family secrets in a Gothic, experimental style.
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D.
La Peau de chagrin
La Peau de chagrin is a philosophical novel by Honoré de Balzac that explores themes of desire, power, and mortality through a magical talisman that grants wishes while shrinking with each use.
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E.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is a modernist, semi-autobiographical novel presented as the fragmented diary of a young poet confronting urban alienation, memory, and the nature of existence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
piano suite
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solo piano composition ⓘ |
| aimedEffect | evocation of vivid literary images on the piano ⓘ |
| approximateCompositionEnd | 1908 ⓘ |
| approximateCompositionStart | 1908 ⓘ |
| associatedComposerStyle | French impressionism ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Gaspard de la nuit
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Gaspard de la nuit: Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot
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| basedOnAuthor | Aloysius Bertrand ⓘ |
| catalogueNumber | M. 55 ⓘ |
| composer | Maurice Ravel ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Rene de Castéra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| difficultyRanking | among the most difficult works in the piano repertoire ⓘ |
| duration | approximately 20 minutes ⓘ |
| eachMovementBasedOnPoemBy | Aloysius Bertrand ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceYear | 1909 ⓘ |
| firstPerformer | Ricardo Viñes ⓘ |
| genre |
20th-century classical music
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Impressionist music ⓘ |
| hasPoeticEpigraphs | true ⓘ |
| historicalContext | composed after Ravel’s Jeux d’eau and Miroirs ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Liszt’s virtuoso piano tradition ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Romantic-era fantastical imagery
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dark fantastical prose poems ⓘ |
| instrumentation | solo piano ⓘ |
| keyOfFirstMovement | C-sharp major ⓘ |
| keyOfSecondMovement | E-flat minor ⓘ |
| keyOfThirdMovement | G-sharp minor ⓘ |
| languageOfSourceText | French ⓘ |
| movement |
Le Gibet
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Ondine ⓘ Scarbo ⓘ |
| movementCharacter |
Le Gibet is slow and haunting
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Ondine ⓘ
surface form:
Ondine is fluid and shimmering
Scarbo is fast and demonic ⓘ |
| notableFor |
extreme technical difficulty
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virtuosic piano writing ⓘ |
| numberOfMovements | 3 ⓘ |
| period | early 20th century ⓘ |
| placeOfFirstPerformance | Paris ⓘ |
| publisher | Durand ⓘ |
| techniqueRequired |
complex polyrhythms
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delicate tone control ⓘ large leaps ⓘ rapid repeated notes ⓘ |
| titleTranslation |
Gaspard de la nuit
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Gaspard of the Night
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| workTitleLanguage | French ⓘ |
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Subject: Gaspard de la nuit Description of subject: Gaspard de la nuit is a notoriously difficult three-movement piano suite by Maurice Ravel, inspired by Aloysius Bertrand’s dark, fantastical prose poems.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Gaspard de la nuit: Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot
this entity surface form:
Gaspard of the Night
this entity surface form:
Gaspard de la Nuit (literary character)