Pavane for a Dead Princess (score & parts) - WW5

Pavane for a Dead Princess (Pavane pour une infante défunte)

for woodwind quintet: flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon
by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) - French composer

Arranged by Andreas Tarkmann and edited by Wolfgang Birtel. Maurice Ravel's melancholy popular “Pavane for a Dead Princess” composed in 1899 was originally written for piano before he arranged it for orchestra in 1910. Though dedicated to a real princess, the Princesse de Polignac, the work does not refer to an actual historical person.