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Today marks the anniversary of the death in 1733 of French Baroque composer Francois Couperin…
In 1917 Maurice Ravel premiered his piano suite Le Tombeau de Couperin (‘upon the grave of Couperin’), which featured six parts, each dedicated to a friend of his whose life was wasted in WWI…
Here is part IV, in the orchestrated 1920 version: “To the memory of Pierre and Pascal Gaudin” (brothers killed by the same shell…)
Maurice Ravel: “Le Tombeau de Couperin: IV. Rigaudon” — Claudio Abbado & London Symphony Orchestra
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