By
Maurice Ravel
Ravel's "Pavane for a Dead Princess" (Pavane pour une infante défunte), composed in 1899, is a hauntingly beautiful work inspired by the fascination with Spain's exoticism that was prevalent in French art during the late 19th century. Ravel's piece captures the essence of a melancholic courtly dance for a deceased princess.
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by:
Gwendolyn Mok
One of the last serious pupils of Ravel's preferred pianist, Vlado Perlemuter, Gwendolyn Mok brings decades of experience researching and performing Ravel's works to this lesson on the Pavane pour une infante défunte ("Pavane for a Dead Princess"). For Mok, Ravel's Pavane demonstrates the composer's reserved character and the quality of "pudeur" or restraint that imbues his music with such distinction and beauty.
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