"Pavane pour une infante défunte" (Pavane for a Dead Princess), M. 19, was composed by Maurice Ravel in 1899 as a piano piece and later orchestrated in 1910. Inspired by a painting of a Spanish infanta at the Louvre, it evokes the stately, melancholic grace of a Renaissance court dance and remains one of Ravel's most popular and enduring works.
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