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A piano suite known for being amongst the most challenging pieces ever written for piano, Ravel based this composition on poems of the same name by Aloysius Bertrand. Ondine depicts a water nymph seducing her observer. Le Gibet depicts a man hanging in the gallows at sunset with church bells ringing in the background. Scarbo represents a demon being mischievous in his nighttime adventures.
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