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Ravel, Maurice : Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn G-Dur

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Music ID : 327
Composition Year：1909　
Publication Year：1910
First Publisher：Durand
Instrumentation：Piano Solo　
Genre：menuetto
Total Playing Time：2 min 00 sec
Copyright：Public Domain
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Author : PTNA Piano Encyclopedia Editorial Department

Last Updated: January 1, 2010
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

The 'Minuet on the Name of Haydn' was composed in 1908, commissioned by a Parisian music magazine to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Haydn's death. The theme was created by assigning notes to the five letters of HAYDN (where H corresponds to B, G to G, I to B, J to C, and so forth in sequence, with N corresponding to G and Y to D). It is an elegant short piece skillfully composed by employing inversion and retrograde of this theme.

Writer: PTNA Piano Encyclopedia Editorial Department
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