Henle Music Folios

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 luthéal, a device for keyboard instruments to extend the timbre. Tzigane was inspired by the Hungarian-English violinist Jelly…