TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN - PRELUDE
Acrylic on Canvas
40" x 30"
£1,000
Maurice Ravel wrote a suite of six piano pieces using formats from the eighteenth century and before,
which he later orchestrated. Each is dedicated to the memory of a friend who was killed in the First World War.
I know nothing of the life or fate of Lieutenant Jacques Charlot, to whom the Prelude is dedicated.
I know only that the swirling oboe, with which Ravel opens the Prelude, takes us to a world free from earthly fear or pain,
where those who have gone before us can abandon the traumas of their passing. A place where the spirit can soar and
develop beyond present belief, unfettered by the power-based dogmas and prejudices of the mundane.
And there we will ultimately join them.