Émile Louis Fortuné Pessard was a French composer.
Émile Pessard; photograph by Charles Reutlinger (about 1880).
Le Char, poster by Edward Ancourt [fr], 1878
Joseph Maurice Ravel 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.
Ravel in 1925
Joseph Ravel (1875), Marie Ravel (1870) and Maurice Ravel aged four (1879)
Piano class of Charles de Bériot in 1895, with Ravel on the left
Gabriel Fauré, Ravel's teacher and supporter