In 1929 Paul Wittgenstein, a pianist and war veteran who lost his right arm in the Great War, commissioned Maurice Ravel to write a concerto for him to perform. The result was one of Ravel s most thrilling compositions and, for Wittgenstein, the most important of the many works he commissioned over the course of his career.
The piano reduction in our edition contains both Ravel s and Wittgenstein s fingering. Also included is a solo part without fingering, thereby giving pianists the opportunity to enter their own fingering after having studied those of Ravel and Wittgenstein.
