Maurice Ravel - Violin Sonata No.2

Maurice Ravel's sonata is a work written for violin and piano; its composition took quite a little time, from 1923 to 1927, and there the composer was inspired by the music of America, namely jazz and blues, whose influence is clear especially in the second movement.
When Ravel was living in Montfort-l'Amaury, France, he accompanied Helen Jourdan-Morhange and they shared a love for jazz; the classic blues band of W.C. Handy exhibited the style of St. Louis blues in Paris from 1923 to 1927.
He applied the technical and melodic forms of blues. The sonata is stylistically far different then Ravel's earlier works: the music utilizes bitonality, the horizontal management of voices that Erik Satie loved and harmonies of gnashing hardness, which Igor Stravinsky begin to personify. Satie and Stravinsky may have influenced the opening of the new creative period where the blues of Ravel's sonata marked a high point.
The Violin Sonata is divided into three movements:
1. Allegretto;
2.Blues. Moderato;
3. Perpetuum mobile.