Maurice Ravel
Joseph Maurice Ravel ; |group=n}} (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer.Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Paris Conservatoire; he was not well regarded by its conservative establishment, whose biased treatment of him caused a scandal. After leaving the conservatoire, Ravel found his own way as a composer, developing a style of great clarity and incorporating elements of modernism, baroque, neoclassicism and, in his later works, jazz. He liked to experiment with musical form, as in his best-known work, ''Boléro'' (1928), in which repetition takes the place of development. Renowned for his abilities in orchestration, Ravel made some orchestral arrangements of other composers' piano music, of which his 1922 version of Mussorgsky's ''Pictures at an Exhibition'' is the best known.
A slow and painstaking worker, Ravel composed fewer pieces than many of his contemporaries. Among his works to enter the repertoire are pieces for piano, chamber music, two piano concertos, ballet music, two operas and eight song cycles; he wrote no symphonies or church music. Many of his works exist in two versions: first, a piano score and later an orchestration. Some of his piano music, such as ''Gaspard de la nuit'' (1908), is exceptionally difficult to play, and his complex orchestral works such as ''Daphnis et Chloé'' (1912) require skilful balance in performance.
Ravel was among the first composers to recognise the potential of recording to bring their music to a wider public. From the 1920s, despite limited technique as a pianist or conductor, he took part in recordings of several of his works; others were made under his supervision. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937
Published 1990
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by Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937
Published 1951
Published 1951
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by Chabrier, Emmanuel, 1841-1894
Published 1994
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by Gartside, Robert
Published 1992
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by Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918
Published 1986
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by Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918
Published 1986
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by Świerzy, Waldemar, 1931-
Published 1970
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by Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918
Published 1995
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by Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953
Published 1995
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by Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921
Published 1981
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by Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918
Published 1993
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by Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881
Published 1982
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by Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918
Published 2001
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by Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918
Published 1990
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by Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945
Published 1956
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by Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893
Published 1997
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