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Gaspard de la nuit: Trois poèmes pour piano d'après Aloysius Bertrand is a suite of pieces for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, written in 1908. It has three movements, each based on a poem by Aloysius Bertrand. The work was premiered on January 9, 1909, in Paris by Ricardo Viñes.
The piece is famous for its difficulty, partly because Ravel intended the Scarbo movement to be more difficult than Balakirev's Islamey. Because of its technical challenges and profound musical structure, Scarbo is considered one of the most difficult solo piano pieces ever written

Scarbo
" I wanted to make a caricature of romanticism. Perhaps it got the better of me. "
Maurice Ravel, on "Scarbo".[3][1][4]
This movement depicts the nighttime mischief of a small fiend or goblin, making pirouettes, flitting in and out of the darkness, disappearing and suddenly reappearing. Its uneven flight, hitting and scratching against the walls, casting a growing shadow in the moonlight, creates a nightmarish scene for the observer lying in his bed. With its repeated notes and two terrifying climaxes, this is the high point of technical difficulty of the three movements. Technical difficulties include repeated notes in both hands, and double-note scales in major seconds in the right hand. Ravel reportedly said about Scarbo: "I wanted to write an orchestral transcription for the piano.
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La valse
Menuet antique
Shéhérazade (ouverture de féerie)
Pavane pour une infante défunte ("Pavane for a dead infanta") (piano 1899, orchestra 1910)
Jeux d'eau (piano, 1901)
String Quartet in F major (1902--3)
Shéhérazade (orchestral song cycle, 1903) Setting poems by his friend Tristan Klingsor
Sonatine (piano, 1903--1905)
Introduction and Allegro (pedal harp, flute, clarinet, string quartet, 1905)
Miroirs ("Reflections") (piano, 1905):
Noctuelles ("Night moths")
Oiseaux tristes ("Sad birds")
Une barque sur l'océan ("A boat on the ocean"; orchestrated 1906)
Alborada del Gracioso ("Dawn song of the jester"; orchestrated 1918)
La vallée des cloches ("Valley of the bells")
Histoires naturelles ("Tales from nature") (song cycle for voice and piano, text by Jules Renard, 1906)
Pièce en forme de Habanera (bass voice and piano, 1907)
Rapsodie espagnole ("Spanish Rhapsody") (orchestra, 1907)
L'heure espagnole ("The Spanish Hour") (opera, 1907--1909)
Gaspard de la nuit ("Demons of the night") (piano, 1908)
Ma Mère l'Oye ("Mother Goose") (piano duet 1908--1910, orchestrated 1911, expanded into ballet 1912)
Daphnis et Chloé ("Daphnis and Chloé") (ballet, 1909--1912)
Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, (voice, piano, flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet and string quartet, 1913)
Valses nobles et sentimentales ("Noble and Sentimental Waltzes") (piano 1911, orchestra 1912)
Piano Trio A minor (1914)
Le Tombeau de Couperin ("Tombeau for Couperin"; piano 1914--1917; movements I, III, IV and V orchestrated 1919)
I. Prelude
II. Fugue
III. Forlane
IV. Rigaudon
V. Minuet
VI. Toccata
La Valse (choreographic poem, 1906--1914 and 1919--1920)
Sonata for Violin and Cello in C Major (1920--1922)
Chansons Madécasses ("Songs of Madagascar") (voice, flute, cello and piano, text by Evariste Parny, 1926)
L'enfant et les sortilèges ("The Child and the Spells", lyric fantasy, 1920--1925, libretto by Colette 1917)
Tzigane (violin and piano, 1924)
Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major (1923--1927)
Fanfare (1927; for the children's ballet L'Éventail de Jeanne, to which ten French composers each contributed a dance)
Boléro (ballet, 1928)
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major (1929--1930; composed for Paul Wittgenstein)
Piano Concerto in G (1929--1931)
Don Quichotte à Dulcinée ("Serenade of Don Quixote to Dulcinea"; voice and piano, 1932--1933)