Le Tombeau de Couperin is a dance taught by grief in a clear room of light.
Names fall like quiet bells; time answers in measured steps—courante, forlane, rigaudon—each movement a small reliquary of breath. What was sorrow becomes ceremony, and ceremony becomes air. Ravel’s pages turn, and the heart, stubborn and tender, keeps time for the ones who cannot.
Maurice Ravel composed Le Tombeau de Couperin between 1914–1917 as a six-movement suite for piano, each movement dedicated to a friend lost in World War I. Paula’s work reflects both its baroque homage and its elegiac radiance.
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Maurice Ravel composed Le Tombeau de Couperin between 1914–1917 as a six-movement suite for piano, each movement dedicated to a friend lost in World War I. Paula’s work reflects both its baroque homage and its elegiac radiance.
Learn more about Le Tombeau de Couperin
