A commission from the Érard company resulted in this composer's Introduction and Allegro for string quartet, clarinet, flute, and harp.
A commission from the Érard company resulted in this composer's Introduction and Allegro for string quartet, clarinet, flute, and harp. Ricardo Viñes publicly premiered a work by this man that was inspired by Liszt's Fountains of the Villa d'Este. Percy Grainger orchestrated "The Valley of Bells", the final movement in a suite by this man that also includes "Oiseaux tristes". This man called for a sopranino saxophone in F in a work that was popularized in an extremely (*) fast performance by Arturo Toscanini. This composer of Jeux d'eau and Miroirs omitted the fifth "Promenade" in his orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. In his most famous work, a melody in C starts in the flutes and is passed from instrument to instrument, constantly crescendoing, over an ostinato snare drum. For 10 points, name this French composer of Boléro.
A commission from the Érard company resulted in this composer's Introduction and Allegro for string quartet, clarinet, flute, and harp.
Maurice Ravel [or Joseph-Maurice Ravel]