Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Merry Christmas from Asriel! My channel's been up for two years now and i really want to thank all of you for the awsome support i always get! Anyways here's a beautiful piece to make your morning better:
Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Deceased Infanta) is a work for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, written in 1899 while he was studying at the Conservatoire de Paris under Gabriel Fauré. Ravel also composed an orchestral version in 1910.
Ravel described the piece as "an evocation of a pavane that a little princess [infanta] might, in former times, have danced at the Spanish court". The pavane was a slow processional dance that enjoyed great popularity in the courts of Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
This antique miniature is not meant to pay tribute to any particular princess from history, but rather expresses a nostalgic enthusiasm for Spanish customs and sensibilities.
Ravel dedicated the Pavane to his patron, the Princesse de Polignac, and he probably performed the work at the princess's home on at least several occasions. It was first published by Eugène Demets in 1900, but it attracted little attention until the Spanish pianist Ricardo Viñes gave the first performance on 5 April 1902.
Amazing engraving by PhilTA: musescore.com/user/2749876
Soundfont: Yamaha C5 with some post editing by myself
Enjoy :p
Merry Christmas from Asriel! My channel's been up for two years now and i really want to thank all of you for the awsome support i always get! Anyways here's a beautiful piece to make your morning better:
Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Deceased Infanta) is a work for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, written in 1899 while he was studying at the Conservatoire de Paris under Gabriel Fauré. Ravel also composed an orchestral version in 1910.
Ravel described the piece as "an evocation of a pavane that a little princess [infanta] might, in former times, have danced at the Spanish court". The pavane was a slow processional dance that enjoyed great popularity in the courts of Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
This antique miniature is not meant to pay tribute to any particular princess from history, but rather expresses a nostalgic enthusiasm for Spanish customs and sensibilities.
Ravel dedicated the Pavane to his patron, the Princesse de Polignac, and he probably performed the work at the princess's home on at least several occasions. It was first published by Eugène Demets in 1900, but it attracted little attention until the Spanish pianist Ricardo Viñes gave the first performance on 5 April 1902.
Amazing engraving by PhilTA: musescore.com/user/2749876
Soundfont: Yamaha C5 with some post editing by myself
Enjoy :p
