4 cellos - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q11677 Composed by Maurice Ravel. Arranged by Wolfgang Birtel. This edition: score and parts. Cello Library. Downloadable, Score and parts. Schott Music - Digital #Q11677. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q11677). Maurice Ravel's melancholy popular 'Pavane for a Dead Princess' composed in 1899 was originally written for piano before he arranged it for orchestra in 1910. Though dedicated to a real princess, the Princesse de Polignac, the work does not refer to an actual historical person.