Gaspard de la nuit

Gaspard de la nuit: Trois poèmes pour piano d' apres Aloysius Bertrand is a 1908 three-part arisen piano works of Maurice Ravel, which was inspired by Aloysius Bertrand's eponymous short prose - poetry from 1842. It was premiered on January 9, 1909 by Ricardo Viñes.

The movement titles are:

The literary work is also in three parts. Ondine is a mermaid or mermaid in their realm, in Le gibet one considers a hanged on the gallows at dusk. Scarbo deals with a demon or goblin which disturbs the people in their sleep. Ravel intended with the extremely virtuosic final movement, Mili Balakirev Islamey of technical difficulty to surpass and to create the most difficult solo piano piece ever. The composition is temporally and stylistically classified roughly into the era of Impressionism.