Product Description
From Tempo Vero Editions Classical Repertoire: Impressionist & Modern French
This edition of Pavane pour une infante défunte, composed by Maurice Ravel in 1899, remains faithful to the composer while offering clarity and ease of performance. It features clean, spacious engraving with convenient page turns and French directions paired with Italian equivalents.
Editorial refinements for clarity and playability include:
- Corrected and aligned markings (tempo, accidentals, articulations, slurs, ties, rests, clefs, dynamics, tuplets, and hand indications)
- Simplified tied notes for easier reading (e.g., quarter tied to eighth combined into dotted quarter)
- Grace notes clarified as appoggiatura (32nd) rather than misplaced acciaccatura (slash)
- Certain note collisions marked with parentheses to guide performance
- Removed unnecessary courtesy rests
- Improved distribution of notes between hands
- Tenuto marks standardized to the attack note of a tie
- Tempo metronome omitted due to wide inconsistency in early editions
Browse the complete Tempo Vero Editions catalog of masterworks refined for modern pianists: https://tempoveroeditions.com/classical-piano
Audio sample by Gabriel Antonio Hernandez Romero, 2018, under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license on IMSLP.
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode
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