List of compositions by Maurice Ravel


This is a complete list of compositions by Maurice Ravel, initially categorized by genre, and sorted within each genre chronologically in order of date the composition was completed. The "M." header is clickable and doing so will sort the entire list by order of composition completion date.
Catalogue "M" numbers were assigned by the musicologist Marcel Marnat according to date of composition. Arrangements by Ravel of his own works were assigned the "M" number of the original followed by a letter. Arrangements by Ravel of other composers' works or of "traditional" music were assigned a separate "MA" number, in order of date of arrangement.

List of compositions

Orchestra

1st version
partial reorchestration of most of the symphonic poem Antar Op. 9, the movements reordered and interspersed with reorchestrated fragments of the same work, a fragment of the opera Mlada, orchestrated fragments of songs from the Romances Op. 4 and Op. 7, and an extract from Félicien David's composition Le Désert, all included as the basis for new music by Ravel mostly in the style of Rimsky-Korsakov used as interconnecting pieces with the larger Antar movements;
originally for piano, orchestration for the Sergei Diaghilev ballet Las Meninas
revised version;
early version of Allegro movement of Sonate M 73

Piano solo

originally for orchestra and female chorus, arrangement;
1st version
composed with Debussy's stepson and pupil Raoul Bardac;
III. Sirènes, 2nd version
1st version
revised version

Solo voice with piano

2. text: French traditional, in Limousin;
3. text: Italian traditional, in Italian;
4. text: Hebrew traditional, in Yiddish and Hebrew
2. text: Hebrew traditional, in Yiddish