Maurice Ravel wrote “Gaspard de la nuit: Trois poèmes pour piano d’après Aloysius Bertrand” in 1908. “Le Gibet”, the second piece in the trilogy, has been described as: “It is a bell tinting at the walls of a city under the horizon and the carcass of a hanged man reddened by the setting sun”. Of course, le gibet is the gallows. Valentina Lisitsa captures it beautifully in this video:
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