Ballade (classical music) variations), Claude Debussy, Friedrich Baumfelder (for example his Two Ballades, Op. 47, and No. 2 from his Op. 285), Franz Liszt (who wrote two) and Gabriel Fauré (Op. 19, later arranged for piano and orchestra). "Ballades" for instruments other than the piano have also been written. 20th-century examples of the form include the three ballades of Manolis Kalomiris, the six "ballades" of Frank Martin (composed for instruments such as the cello, viola, flute, and saxophone), and Einojuhani Rautavaara's "Ballade for Harp and Strings". Ballade (classical music) A ballade (from French "", , and German "Ballade", , both being words for
Romanian Rhapsodies (Enescu) Enescu maintained this order of performance throughout his life. The Rhapsody No. 1 in A major is dedicated to the composer and pedagogue (a fellow student with Enescu in André Gedalge's counterpoint class at the Conservatoire), and is the better known of the two rhapsodies. The essence of this rhapsody is the dance. Enescu claimed that it was "just a few tunes thrown together without thinking about it", but his surviving sketches show that he carefully worked out the order in which the melodies should appear, and the best instrumental setting for each one. It was completed on 14 August