Impressionist · French
Maurice Ravel
1875 – 1937
Maurice Ravel's piano writing is famously precise — Gaspard de la nuit, Miroirs, Le Tombeau de Couperin, the Sonatine, and Jeux d'eau combine impressionist colour with the architectural clarity of his admired Mozart and Couperin.
Gaspard de la nuit, especially "Scarbo," remains one of the touchstone virtuoso works of the modern piano repertoire.
The 21 public-domain piano works listed below are sortable, downloadable as PDF score editions, and free to study, perform, record, and re-engrave. Each piece links to its individual page with full catalog data, performance notes, and historical context. Browse more works from the Impressionist era, or use the difficulty filters below to narrow by technical level.
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Piano works by Maurice Ravel
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All works listed by Open Opus
77 works · Data from Open Opus (openopus.org), released into the public domain (CC0) — fetched 2026-09-11. Catalog entries only: title, subtitle, and genre classification as published by Open Opus. These are not downloadable score editions.
By genre, from Open Opus’s own classification on this composer’s work records: 19 Keyboard · 8 Orchestral · 11 Chamber · 33 Vocal · 6 Stage.
- 2 mélodies hébraïquesVocal
- 3 Chansons, for a cappella chorusVocal
- 8 Valses nobles et sentimentalesKeyboard
- A la manière de...Keyboard
- Alborada del graciosoOrchestral
- Alcyone, cantata for 3 voices and orchestraVocal
- Alyssa, cantata for 3 voices and orchestraVocal
- Ballade de la reine morte d'aimer — SongVocal
- Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré, for violin and pianoChamber
- Boléro — BalletStage
- Cello SonataChamber
- Chanson du rouet — SongVocal
- Chansons madécasses, for soprano, flute, cello, and piano — Song cycleVocal
- Chants populaires, for voice and piano — Song cycleVocal
- Cinq mélodies populaires grecques, for voice and piano — Song cycleVocal
- Daphnis et Chloé — BalletStage
- Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, for voice and orchestra — Song cycleVocal
- Epigrammes de Clément Marot — SongVocal
- FanfareStage
- Frontispiece, for 2 pianosKeyboard
- Gaspard de la nuitKeyboard
- Histoires naturelles, for voice and piano — Song cycleVocal
- Introduction et Allegro, for flute, harp, clarinet, and string quartetChamber
- Jeux d'eauKeyboard
- Kaddish, for violin and pianoChamber
- L' heure espagnole — OperaStage
- L'aurore, cantata for tenor, chorus and orchestraVocal
- L'enfant et les sortilègesStage
- La nuit, cantata for soprano, chorus and orchestraVocal
- La paradeKeyboard
- La valseOrchestral
- Le tombeau de CouperinKeyboard
- Les bayadères, cantata for soprano, chorus and orchestraVocal
- Les Grands Vents venus d'Outre-mer — SongVocal
- Ma mère l'oye — BalletStage
- Ma Mère l'Oye, for piano 4-handsKeyboard
- Manteau de fleurs — SongVocal
- Matinée de Provence, cantata for voice, chorus and orchestraVocal
- Mélodies popularies grecques — SongsVocal
- Menuet antiqueKeyboard
- Menuet en ut dièse, for pianoKeyboard
- Menuet sur le nom d'HaydnKeyboard
- MiroirsKeyboard
- Myrrha, cantata for 3 voices and orchestraVocal
- Noël des jouets — SongVocal
- Pavane pour une infante défunteKeyboard
- Piano Concerto for the Left HandOrchestral
- Piano Concerto in GOrchestral
- Piano Trio in A minorChamber
- Pièce en forme de Habanera, for violin and pianoChamber
- PréludeKeyboard
- Rêves — SongVocal
- Rhapsodie espagnoleOrchestral
- Ronsard à son âme — SongVocal
- Sainte — SongVocal
- Sérénade grotesqueKeyboard
- Shéhérazade — Songs for soprano and orchestraVocal
- ShéhérazadeOrchestral
- Si morne! — SongVocal
- Sites auriculaires, for 2 pianosKeyboard
- Sonata for Violin and CelloChamber
- SonatineKeyboard
- Sonatine in F sharp minorKeyboard
- String Quartet in FChamber
- Sur l'herbe — SongVocal
- ToccataKeyboard
- Tout est lumière, cantata for soprano, chorus and orchestraVocal
- Trios Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, for voice and chamber ensemble — Song cycleVocal
- Tripatos — SongVocal
- Trois chansons, for voice and piano — Song cycleVocal
- Tzigane: Concert Rhapsody for Violin and OrchestraOrchestral
- Tzigane: Rhapsodie de concert, for violin and pianoChamber
- Un grand sommeil noir — SongVocal
- Une barque sur l'océanOrchestral
- Violin Sonata no. 1 in A minor, "Posthumous"Chamber
- Violin Sonata no. 2 in GChamber
- Vocalise: Étude en forme de habanera — SongVocal