Le Tombeau de Couperin

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Le Tombeau de Couperin is a neoclassical suite for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, later orchestrated, composed as an homage to French Baroque style and to friends lost in World War I.

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Label Occurrences
Le Tombeau de Couperin canonical 2
The Tomb of Couperin 1

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf musical composition
orchestral suite
piano suite
associatedWithEvent World War I
catalogue Maurice Ravel’s works catalogue
commemorates friends of Maurice Ravel killed in World War I
composer Maurice Ravel
composerNationality French
compositionPeriod World War I
countryOfOrigin France
dedication individual friends of Maurice Ravel killed in World War I
form multi-movement suite
genre neoclassicism
suite
hasNoText true
historicalContext early 20th-century French music
homageTo François Couperin
French Baroque music
influencedBy Baroque dance forms
French Baroque keyboard suites
keyCharacteristic light, refined character despite memorial purpose
language none (instrumental)
laterInstrumentation orchestra
memorialWork true
movement Forlane
Fugue
Menuet
Prélude
Rigaudon
Toccata
notableFeature clear, transparent orchestration in the orchestral version
use of Baroque forms with modern harmony
orchestralVersionMovement Forlane
Menuet
Prélude
Rigaudon
originalInstrumentation solo piano
performanceMedium orchestra
piano
relatedConcept tombeau (memorial musical form)
structure suite in six movements (piano version)
style French neoclassical
titleLanguage French
titleMeaning Le Tombeau de Couperin self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Tomb of Couperin

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Description of subject: Le Tombeau de Couperin is a neoclassical suite for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, later orchestrated, composed as an homage to French Baroque style and to friends lost in World War I.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Maurice Ravel notableWork Le Tombeau de Couperin
Le Tombeau de Couperin titleMeaning Le Tombeau de Couperin self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Tomb of Couperin
Soundtrack to Human Motion hasTrack Le Tombeau de Couperin