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Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn
composer
completed on 12 September 1909; makring the anniversary of the death of Haydn
Recordings
'Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music' (CDA67731/2)
'Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music' (CDA67341/2)
Details
Track 6 on CDA67341/2 CD2 [2'00] 2CDs
Track 12 on CDA67731/2 CD2 [1'33] 2CDs
Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn
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In the summer of 1909 the journalist Jules Ecorcheville asked a number of leading French composers each to write a short piano piece in honour of Haydn, who died on 31 May 1809. The form was left up to them, but they were asked to make use of a five-note motto theme (B–A–D–D–G) representing the name Haydn. This was just the sort of game Ravel enjoyed playing and on 12 September 1909 he wrote to Ecorcheville, ‘Le menuet est confectionné’—the term used by tailors cutting a suit. The motto theme duly appears as above, then backwards and upside down, before two final recto appearances in the treble and, in the concluding bars, in the bass.

from notes by Roger Nichols © 2011

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Details for CDA67731/2 disc 2 track 12
Artists
ISRC
GB-AJY-11-73212
Duration
1'33
Recording date
14 September 2010
Recording venue
Henry Wood Hall, London, United Kingdom
Recording producer
Andrew Keener
Recording engineer
David Hinitt
Hyperion usage
  1. Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music (CDA67731/2)
    Disc 2 Track 12
    Release date: March 2011
    2CDs
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