RAVEL | Pavane pour une infante défunte, mm. 71–72

SPECIAL COLLECTION | Dorothy Brandwein’s Ravel Fingerings

Published on 4/5/2022 with the author’s permission

First appeared in Dorothy Woster Brandwein, "Divisi Fingering in Selected Passages from Ravel's Solo Piano Works" (DMA diss., University of Missouri–Kansas City, 1981), 56, 69.

56: “In addition, divisi fingering allows the rapid flourish of notes written in small notation to lie conveniently beneath the hands. Without divisi fingering, the extra arm or wrist motion required to play the notes could be detrimental to the fluidity and speed which the passage require.”