“I have the intention to dedicate Le Gibet to you. It is not because I think you merit a rope to hang yourself, but because it is the least difficult of the three pieces.”

—  Maurice Ravel

Ravel to pianist Jean Marnold about Le Gibet from Gaspard de la Nuit

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