| 作曲者 | Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)・モーリス・ラヴェル |
| タイトル | Menuet sur le nom de Haydn |
| 出版社 | Éditions Durand・デュラン |
| シリーズ名 | Durand-Salabert-Eschig-Piano Library |
| 楽器編成 | Piano |
| 品番 | HL979-0044096329 |
| 言語 | フランス語・英語 |
| 出版年 | 2025年 |
| 出版番号 | DR 01694600 |
| ISMN | 979-0044096329 |
It was Jules Écorcheville (1872–1915) who took the initiative in 1909 of organizing a unique commemoration of the centenary of the death of Joseph Haydn (1732–1809). The musicologist suggested to several French composers that they should write a piece based on the name of Haydn. It was on this occasion that Maurice Ravel composed the Menuet. Écorcheville’s initiative follows the tradition of the musical tombeau, a piece dedicated to the memory of a musician friend who has died. Particularly cultivated in the Baroque period, it re-emerged with renewed vigour in the early twentieth century, as witnessed by another famous piece by Ravel: the Tombeau de Couperin (1917).