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Deryk Barker spake thusly:
>IIRC RAvel did something similar for the frist performance of the Valses
>Nobles et Sentimentales. They were programmed under another name and
>something else alleged to be the Ravel.
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>The "Ravel" was considered far superior to the work of the "unknown"
>composer.
I thought that I remembered this slightly differently, so I tracked
down the liner notes for Vox MWCD 7140 Ravel Orchestral Works (Minnesota
Orchestra conducted by Skrowaczewski, in a cardboard cover, and a wonderful
CD):
In its original form, for piano solo, this work was composed in 1911
and dedicated to Louis Aubert, who gave its first performance on May
9 of that year at a concert of the Societe Musicale Independante in
which the music was presented anonymously and the audience was invited
to identify the composer. The guesses ranged from Erik Satie to Zoltan
Kodaly. Debussy, who was not fooled, listened with excitement and
then said of Ravel: "His is the finest ear ever to exist!"
"By a minute majority," Ravel recalled later, "the paternity of the
Valses was ascribed to me.".... (notes by Richard Freed)
Tim Dickinson
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