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. 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;

the orchestral score of the song fragments and David's piece are lost, though the song fragments exist in the piano reduction
found;
planned new orchestration of all 3 preludes, only first was completed
partially lost;
fragments exist at Bibliothèque nationale de France.
project abandoned;
only 3 of the 20 pieces survive, the remaining 17 are either lost or were never written

originally for piano, orchestration for the Sergei Diaghilev ballet Les Jardins d'Aranjuez

published as No. 1 of Sarabande et Danse
published as No. 2 of Sarabande et Danse

revised version;

lost, possibly never written

Concertante

sketches only

Chamber

published posthumously

early version of Allegro movement of Sonate M 73

Piano solo

student exercise;
lost
student exercise;
held in collection of Ravel's heirs
student exercise;
held in collection of Ravel's heirs
discovered and published posthumously
piano sketch only, comprising 2 waltzes, 2 marches, and a mazurka;
discovered and published posthumously
held in collection of Ravel's heirs
Prix de Rome essay competition;
lost
possibly held by Yale
student composition;
lost
Prix de Rome competition
Prix de Rome competition
Prix de Rome competition;
held at the Museum of the National Library of France
Prix de Rome competition

Piano duet

Published as No. 1 of Sites auriculaires, with M. 13;
used later as No. 3 of Rapsodie espagnole M. 54a
published as No. 2 of Sites auriculaires, with M. 8

originally for orchestra and female chorus, arrangement;
first version

III. Habanera, identical to M 8
used later as No. 1 of Ma mère l'Oye M. 60

composed with Debussy's stepson and pupil Raoul Bardac;
III. Sirènes, second version

I. Pavane, identical to M. 56

Stage

abandoned, only Ouverture completed and premiered separately as a concert piece
sketches destroyed except for a Symphonie horlogère incorporated into the opening of L'heure espagnole M. 52
planned work, survives as sketches
III. identical to M. 60a I;
V. identical to M. 60a IV;
VII. identical to M. 60a II;
IX. identical to M. 60a III;
XI. identical to M. 60a V
sketches 1906
sketches only
unfinished, originally projected as 4 songs plus incidental music, but only 3 songs completed
unrealised project

Choral

Prix de Rome essay competition;
partially lost
Prix de Rome competition
Prix de Rome competition
Prix de Rome competition
student competition;
partially lost
Prix de Rome competition
Prix de Rome competition
Prix de Rome competition
Prix de Rome competition
Prix de Rome competition
lost

Solo voice with orchestra

1st version
revised version

Solo voice with piano

published as No. 3 of Cinq mélodies populaires grecques
published as No. 4 of Cinq mélodies populaires grecques
lost;
written, but never submitted
lost;
written, but never submitted
lost;
written, but never submitted
published as No. 1 of Cinq mélodies populaires grecques
published as No. 2 of Cinq mélodies populaires grecques
published as No. 5 of Cinq mélodies populaires grecques
reconstructed from a sketch

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

Uncatalogued Works:

Ravel left many works incomplete or unpublished at the time of his death. Many of these works remain in the collection of Ravel's heirs. These do not include numerous fugues Ravel wrote, many of which were written during his time in the Conservatoire de Paris. Below is a few significant unpublished works.

Title	Scoring	Date	Notes
Intérieur	Piano	1890s	After Maurice Maeterlinck's Interior
Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit	Voice and piano	1890s	Text: Paul Verlaine
Portrait de l'Infante/L'infante Rose	Piano	1923	After Henry Malherbe. In a private collection, consists of Pavane pour une infante défunte, Alborada del gracioso, and Rapsodie espagnole
Farfadets	Piano
Mazurka
Barcarolle
La nonne maudite	Piano
Sur l'eau	Voice and orchestra
Les Patineuses	Voice and piano
Symphony
Suite	Two pianos		First piano part is lost
Isaac Albéniz: Rondeña	Orchestra		Originally for piano, transcriptionBook 2, I. Rondeña
François Couperin: Forlane	Piano		Originally for chamber group, transcriptionQuatrième concert, VII. Forlane
Ludwig van Beethoven: Coriolan Overture	Piano		Originally for orchestra, transcription