Jeux d'eau (Ravel)

Jeux d' eau (French for " water games" ) is a good five -minute piano piece that Maurice Ravel composed in 1901.

Ravel wrote the composition with a quote from Henri de Régnier: Dieu fluvial riant de l' eau qui le chatouille, or about a river god who laughs because it tickles the water.

It is the beginning of a series of major piano works of this composer and shows in the core already at that time, partly revolutionary, peculiarities of Ravel 's piano style: His typical harmonies, increasing use of technical specialties such as playing two buttons with one thumb, interlocking hands, chord trills and glissandi and an even Franz Liszt's work on accurate description of the sound spectrum of the modern concert grand including through utilization of even the extreme registers.

Ravel dedicated the piece to his prominent teachers with the words "À mon cher maître Gabriel Fauré. "