Le Tombeau de Couperin

Le tombeau de Couperin is a suite for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, composed between 1914 and 1917, in six movements. Each movement is dedicated to the memory of friends of the composer who had died fighting in World War I. Ravel himself was an army driver during the war. The work is the best-known example of the musical genre of tombeau.

The work also exists in an orchestral version, but not all the movements were included.

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