This is the first modern edition of this core piece of the string quartet repertoire, correcting many errors and inconsistencies of the first edition. Roger Nichols, one of the world’s leading experts on French music, has prepared this scholarly Urtext edition based on all the existing sources, including a sound recording of 1927, supervised by Ravel.

Including a historical preface and critical commentary, the edition benefits from the research undertaken by the editor for his comprehensive biography of Ravel, published by Yale University Press in 2011.