The Last Waltz: Ravel's Democracy

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After World War I, Ravel's valse (1921) wanted to symbolize the collapse of the 20th century. The score is gradually becoming frenetic and destructive, ending abruptly in an orchestral burst. Imagine, dear and unoccupied reader, an entire civilization dancing blindly towards its own destruction. Likewise, the dissolution of the Cortes can become the abrupt end of a decade and the beginning of an authoritarian era that saw its territorial wound o…