{"product_id":"13596-ravel-maurice-les-valses-nobles-et-sentimentales-autograph-musical-quotation","title":"Ravel, Maurice. (1875-1937) \"Les valses nobles et sentimentales\" - Autograph Musical Quotation","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eAn elegant AMQS from the important French composer, penned on his monogrammed stationery. Ravel has written 5 bars from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003ehis third waltz of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"\"\u003eLes Valses nobles et sentimentales\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, notated on a hand-drawn stave. Addressed to a Madame Catherine Parker in Chicago, with her name and address typewritten above the quotation, and dated \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e27 January 1924\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery; separations at folds repaired verso with cello tape, vertical fold touching holograph date with some loss, faint uneven toning. Together with a reproduction portrait photograph.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857;\"\u003eThe piano version of Ravel's \u003ci\u003eValses nobles et sentimentales\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1911, and an orchestral version was published in 1912. The title was chosen in hommage to Franz Schubert, who had released collections of waltzes in 1823 entitled \u003ci\u003eValses nobles\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eValses sentimentales\u003c\/i\u003e. The piano edition is published with a quotation of Henri de Régnier: \"…le plaisir délicieux et toujours nouveau d'une occupation inutile\" (the delicious and forever-new pleasure of a useless occupation). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857;\"\u003eThe suite contains an eclectic blend of Impressionist and Modernist music, which is especially evident in the orchestrated version.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093523419295,"sku":"13596","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Ravel_AMQS_13596_001.jpg?v=1722188591","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/13596-ravel-maurice-les-valses-nobles-et-sentimentales-autograph-musical-quotation","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}