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Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Maurice Ravel is considered one of the early 20th century’s most original composers. Although he was frequently regarded as an outsider to the developments of French music during his lifetime (a position he himself also somewhat cultivated), he was eventually recognized as one of its key figures. He composed in many of the major genres, including operas, ballets and orchestral suites, vocal and choral works, pieces for chamber ensemble and piano, as well as completed several orchestrations of other composers’ works. His music is characterized by a distinctly refined but also sensual approach to form and sound.
Ravel was born on March 7, 1875, in Ciboure, in the Basses-Pyrénées, but grew up in Paris. In 1889, he was admitted to the city’s famed Conservatoire. Despite his desire to succeed, he struggled to maintain his place; he was dismissed twice—in 1895 and
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Maurice Ravel
BIOGRAPHY
Maurice Ravel was born in Ciboure, France, very near the Spanish border, in 1875. His mother, who was from Spain, loved to sing Spanish folk songs to him when he was growing up. His father, an engineer from French Switzerland, enjoyed tinkering with inventions in the early days of the automobile, but his most notable project was a loop-the-loop circus contraption called “The Whirlwind of Death.” Luckily for his son, he also enjoyed music and supported the young Maurice when he began piano lessons at the age of 6.
Ravel went on to study piano at the Conservatoire dem Paris, and even won first prize in a student piano competition. But the requirements for pianists at the Conservatoire were very tough, and a few year later he was kicked out for not winning enough medals. In 1898, however, he returned to the Conservatoire, this time to study composition with the famous composer G
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Maurice Ravel
Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a Frenchcomposer of Impressionist music known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects. Much of his piano music, chamber music, vocal music and orchestral music has entered the standard concert repertoire.
Ravel's piano compositions, such as Jeux d'eau, Miroirs, Le tombeau de Couperin and Gaspard de la nuit, demand considerable virtuosity from the performer, and his orchestral music, including Daphnis et Chloé and his arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, uses a variety of sound and instrumentation.
Ravel is perhaps known best for his orchestral work Boléro (1928), which he considered trivial and once described as "a del av helhet for orchestra without music."[1]
According to SACEM, Ravel's estate earns more royalties than that of any other French composer. According to international copyri