Ravel Tzigane for Violin and Piano

Editor: Jean-Francois Monnard
Fingering: Pascal Rogé
Fing. vn: Frank Peter Zimmermann

Urtext Edition, paperbound
with marked and unmarked string part
No distribution rights for USA

Pages: 42 (V, 19, 9, 9), Size 25,5 x 32,5 cm

Level of difficulty (Violin): difficult (Level 8)

“Virtuoso piece in the style of a Hungarian rhapsody” – thus reads Ravel’s entry on “Tzigane” in the so-called “Autobiographical Sketch”. Composed in 1924, there are three versions of this work: with piano, with orchestra and with luthéal, a device for keyboard instruments to extend the timbre. “Tzigane” was inspired by the Hungarian-English violinist Jelly d’Aranyi, to whom Ravel had already promised a virtuoso piece in 1922 following Franz Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsodies”. Work progressed slowly and d’Aranyi only received the music four days before the première – but she still gave a brilliant performance.