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    Le Tombeau de Couperin (The Grave of Couperin) is a suite for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, composed between 1914 and 1917. The piece is in six movements...
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  • Le Tombeau de Couperin is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Ravel's eponymous orchestral music. The ballet features a cast of sixteen divided...
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    known as Couperin le Grand ("Couperin the Great") to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented Couperin family. Couperin was born in...
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  • (the title is intended to parallel the title of Maurice Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin). In a further play on the title, Hofstadter refers to his deceased...
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  • The tombeau genre went into decline at the end of the 18th century. It reappeared in the 20th century with Maurice Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin (1919)...
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    Rigaudon (redirect from Le Rigodon)
    Maurice Ravel would employ this baroque dance in his piano suite Le Tombeau de Couperin. Little, Meredith Ellis (2001). "Rigaudon". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell...
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    Maurice Ravel (category Prix de Rome for composition)
    works; Menuet sur le nom de Haydn (1909), À la manière de Borodine (1912), À la manière de Chabrier (1913) and Le tombeau de Couperin all incorporate elements...
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  • career, she performed in various Balanchine ballets including Agon, Le Tombeau de Couperin, Chaconne, Symphony in Three Movements, The Nutcracker, and Jewels...
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  • Sergei Prokofiev (Classical Symphony), Ravel (Le Tombeau de Couperin), Manuel de Falla (El retablo de maese Pedro) and Paul Hindemith (Symphony: Mathis...
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  • outbreak of the World War I. Maurice Ravel memorialized him in his Le tombeau de Couperin, dedicating the closing Toccata to him (the sixth part of the piano...
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