G. Henle Verlag

Composer: Maurice Ravel
Editor: Jean-Francois Monnard
Fingering, Piano: Pascal Roge
Fingering/Bowing, Violin: Frank Peter Zimmermann
Format: Sheet Music, Urtext Edition
Instrumentation: Violin and Piano (with marked and unmarked string part)

"Virtuoso piece in the style of a Hungarian rhapsody" -- thus reads Ravel's entry on "Tzigane" in the so-called "Autobiographical Sketch".

Composed in 1924, there are three versions of this work: with piano, with orchestra and with lutheal, a device for keyboard instruments to extend the timbre. "Tzigane" was inspired by the Hungarian-English violinist Jelly d'Aranyi, to whom Ravel had already promised a virtuoso piece in 1922 following Franz Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsodies". Work progressed slowly and d'Aranyi only received the music four days before the premiere -- but she still gave a brilliant performance.