RAVEL | Le Tombeau de Couperin: Toccata: mm. 35–39

 
Piano fingerings for Toccata from Le Tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel

SPECIAL COLLECTION | Dorothy Brandwein’s Ravel Fingerings

Published on 5/5/2022 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), 24, 122.

24: “In Example 2, the left hand is conveniently located to play some of the notes on the upper staff so that the right hand remains extended to play the parallel chords.”

 
Solo Piano, Special CollectionMichael ClarkMaurice Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin, LTdC Toccata, Dorothy Brandwein, redistribution, reduce position shifts, avoid finger crossing, divide more evenly between hands, break up running passageComment