Tzigane
| Tzigane | |
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| by Maurice Ravel | |
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| Other name | Rhapsodie de concert |
| Key | D major |
| Catalogue | M. 76 |
| Composed | 1924 |
| Dedication | Jelly d'Arányi |
| Published | 1924 |
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Tzigane is a rhapsodic composition by the French composer Maurice Ravel featuring a virtuosic violin part. The original instrumentation was for violin and piano (with optional luthéal attachment). The first performance took place in London on 26 April 1924 with the dedicatee, Jelly d'Arányi, on the violin and Henri Gil-Marchex at the piano. In his biographical sketch of 1928 Ravel termed it a rapsodie de concert, as "a virtuoso piece in the style of a Hungarian rhapsody". It consists of "a string of successive variations juxtaposed without development".