Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales 

Ravel said he was imitating Schubert in his Valses nobles et sentimentales, but the harmonic audacity and rhythmic twists render the connection tenuous at best. In eight brief movements, Ravel tempers emotion with formal restraint in a work of great subtlety and wit. Those harmonies certainly puzzled the premiere audience, who were confused by the daring dissonance that they mistook for wrong notes played by pianist Louis Aubert.