Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (Ravel)

Maurice Ravel with Jacques Février playing the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in Paris in 1937

The Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major was composed by Maurice Ravel between 1929 and 1930, concurrently with his Piano Concerto in G major. The piece was commissioned by Paul Wittgenstein, a concert pianist who had lost his right arm in the First World War.[1]

  1. ^ Davidson, Michael (26 October 2000). Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body. Oxford University Press. p. 2. ISBN 9780198026341.