Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Lot 58
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Lot 58 | Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
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£ 25 000 – 35 000
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Autograph manuscript, the vocal score of the cantata Myrrha (here with autograph title 'Myrrha / Scène lyrique'), [Paris, 1901]
In short score, title and 44 leaves (rectos only), 351 x 268mm, the accompaniment for piano two, three or four hands, divided into a prelude and two 'Scènes', frequent erasures and revisions in pencil and coloured crayons (some in an unidentified hand); with the printed announcement of the awards for the Prix de Rome in 1901, showing Ravel awarded the '2e second' [sic] prize, after André Caplet and Gabriel Dupont.

A complete early work by Ravel. This was the second of Ravel's five unsuccessful attempts to win the Prix de Rome (on his first and last entries, in 1900 and 1905, he failed even to proceed to the final round). The text is by Fernand Beissier, adapted from the last act of Byron's Sardanapalus: according to Hugh Macdonald (Musical Times, 116, 1586 (April 1975), 332), Ravel's setting ‘has a Wagnerian flavour, or, more exactly, touches of Wagnerian harmony and movement with the strong French accent that we find in Chausson and d’Indy’. The singers at the competition on 28 June 1901 were accompanied by the piano duet version, likely from the present manuscript: the autograph full score was available for inspection by the jury, and is now at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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