ravel, joseph maurice r composers composition  Ravel, Joseph Maurice


    Ravel, Joseph Maurice R Composers Composition













Ravel, Joseph Maurice R Composers Composition


Ravel, Joseph Maurice

Maurice Ravel was born in the Basque region of France in 1875. His father was Swiss by birth and won a prize for piano playing as a youth. Later he settled on a mechanical career. This might explain why some of his music seems to be inspired by the delight he found in clockworks and mechanical toys. Also as the son of a Swiss engineer, his musical craftsmanship was always superb. Ravel died in 1937. He composed a large body of work, also providing orchestrations for previous pieces. Of all his compositions, Bolero is doubtless the one best known.

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  • - Entry from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music at WQXR radio with family background, biography, notes on influences and peers, comments on style, and listing of major works.
  • - Brief biography, key works, suggested reading, timeline, recommended recordings, and quotes from Humanities Web.
  • - Directory of mp3s on the internet that have been made available by the performing artists.
  • - Documented information about his works, life, friends, and personality, including religion, love, style, politics.
  • - Biography from the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. Over 85 complete files offered in MIDI, MP3, and Windows Media audio formats, including live recordings of featured artists.
  • - Biography, MIDI files, and WMA/MP3 files.
  • - Background information and photograph of his birth home references his ongoing attachment to the town of Ciboure, where he later composed Bolero. Includes link to church where he was baptized.
  • - Synopsis of a play based on the composer's life-story.
  • - Essay by the composer.
  • - Richard Cytowic, MD provides a medical biography on the brain affliction that ended the composer's output, "trapping" new nusic in his head. [DOC format.]
  • - Brief biographical sketch, caricature, summaries of stage works and orchestral, vocal, chamber, and piano music, and Naxos discography.
  • - Filmography at IMDb listing movies and television shows using or based on his music. Includes basic biography and trivia.
  • - Karadar dictionary entry with life and works, related composers, MIDI audio of Bolero, Pavanne for a Dead Princess, and other works, photographs and illustrations, catalogue by opus number, and link to lieder.
  • - By chronology, name, category. Downloadable.


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