Il castello di Elsinore (Jan 2024)
La mise à profit du risque chez Maurice Ravel : une démarche surréaliste ?
Abstract
The present article discusses Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit (1908) and L’Enfant et les sortilèges (1925) by by allowing a section of each of these works – namely ‘Le gibet’ and ‘Préambule féerique’ – to enter into resonance with the notion of risk-taking and the dictates of the Surrealist movement. While Ravel carries out experiments of an unusual and perilous character with a consummate art, the result is far removed from the Neoclassical perspective from which his works are usually considered.
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