clavecinist

Updated: May 2, 2025

In "Le Tombeau de Couperin," Ravel is the old clavecinist become contemporary of Scriabine and Strawinsky, the old clavecinist who had seen the projectiles fall at Verdun and lost a dozen friends in the trenches. He finds it easy, as in some of his recent songs, to achieve the folktone.

Paul Rosenfeld - Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers