Composer Ravel COMPLETELY DESTROYS a Waltz

Ravel's La Valse is a kind of "conceptual art" piece of music that plots the birth, life and death of a dance-form. But did the intervention of World War 1 affect it's ending?

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Research:

George Benjamin on La Valse:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/i241890

https://borisgiltburg.com/CMFA/ravels-la-valse-a-personal-interpretation/

Glyn Maxwell: On Poetry:
https://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Oberon-Masters-Glyn-Maxwell/dp/1786820862/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=on+poetry&qid=1559818116&s=gateway&sr=8-1
Music

Ravel: La Valse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqv0U_D5OZY

Ravel: Bolero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_pSJOkmYBA

Tchaikovksy Waltz from Sleeping Beauty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q4aCMEaja4

Johann Strauss II: Wiener Blut Waltz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCuB6KxXb58

Johann Strauss II: Blue Danube Waltz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ0fKOpow14&t=186s

Die Fledermaus Overture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2lrKuZKV-Q

Ravel : Menuet Antique
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4OUi7ln-LY

Landler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPM0xOWiHOs

Walzer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEdNSk-Hnh8

Also check out Yuja Wang's amazing performance of the piano version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Tdtbo_6yY

Elgar: Introduction and Allegro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faAacaaA-kI

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