Maurice Ravel
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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
Ravel in 1925
Joseph Ravel (1875), Marie Delouart (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
Boléro
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Boléro is a 1928 work for large orchestra by French composer Maurice Ravel. It is one of Ravel's most famous compositions. It was also one of his last completed works before illness diminished his abi
Maurice Ravel
…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…
Ida Rubinstein, who commissioned Boléro, in 1922
Ravel's Boléro, Lamoureux Orchestra, directed by Ravel himself, 1930 12" shellac disc label