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Ma mère l'Oye (English: Mother Goose, literally "My Mother the Goose") is a suite by French composer Maurice Ravel. The piece was originally written as a five-movement piano duet in 1910. In 1911, Ravel orchestrated the work.
Sep 14, 2018 · In 1908, when Jean and Mimi were eight and ten years old, respectively, Ravel composed Ma Mère l’Oye (“Mother Goose Suite”), a four-hand piano composition, for them to play together. Each movement from the Suite depicts a character from the Mother Goose fairytales.
Ravel first wrote the Mother Goose Suite in 1908 for two children whose parents he was friends with, in a four-hand suite for solo piano. The children, Mimi and Jean Godebski, were extremely fond of him since he told them fairytales, some of which he made up on the spot!
Jul 23, 2022 · Maurice Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite appeared first as a five-piece suite for piano four hands in 1908 and dedicated to the young son and daughter of his good friends, the Godebskis. The affectionate musical gift was quite in character for Ravel, who was at once the most sophisticated and child-li
Apr 22, 2021 · Ma mère l’Oye was originally written as a five-movement piano duet, between 1908 and 1910, for 2 children: Mimie and Jean Godebski. As it happened with many of his works, Ravel turned the piano version into an orchestral one.
There are in fact several "versions" of his Mother Goose, and some clarification may be called for. The music began life in 1908 with the creation of a single movement for piano duet, Sleeping Beauty's Pavane. (Ravel's famous Pavane for a Dead Princess had been written nine years earlier, in 1899.)
Aug 31, 2006 · Maurice Ravel had a habit of rearranging his music from piano to orchestra and back. In that spirit, here's a medley of three different arrangements of Ravel's "Mother Goose Suite."
