Free Ravel sheet music
10 Ravel scores on Artform's shelf, ordered easiest to read first. Every score here is public domain, free to read, print and keep.
Open the sheet music libraryMaurice Ravel (1875-1937)
French composer known for precision and orchestral colour so exact that Stravinsky reportedly called him "the Swiss watchmaker" of composers. Boléro, written almost as an experiment in relentless repetition and orchestral crescendo, became by far his most famous work, to his own mild bewilderment, since he considered more demanding pieces like Gaspard de la nuit and the suite Miroirs his real achievements. A student of Fauré, often paired with Debussy as a leading Impressionist though his own music is far more architecturally exact, he suffered a degenerative brain condition in his final years that left him able to hear music perfectly in his head but unable to write a single note of it down.
Start with these
The easiest Ravel on the shelf, in order. Nothing here is graded and nobody is ranked: the shelf simply puts the pieces that ask less of your hands before the ones that ask more.
How the reader works
Each score opens as engraved notation you can read from the stand, and it plays: hear the piece first, then slow it down and loop the bar that is not working. There is nothing to install and no account to make. When you want paper, print it.
Every file is MusicXML, so MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale and Dorico open them too.
Where to go next
If you are learning Ravel rather than only reading, the scale pages cover fingering in every key, the chord pages spell out every chord, and the symbol dictionary explains any mark on the page you do not recognise.