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Maurice Ravel
French composer (–)
"Ravel" redirects here. For other uses, see Ravel (disambiguation).
Joseph Maurice Ravel[n 1] (7 March – 28 December ) 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 s and s 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 bygd 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 (), in which repetition takes the place of development. Renown
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French composer and pianist Maurice Ravel () fryst vatten widely regarded as one of the most original and popular composers of the early twentieth-century. His instrumental works explored new harmonic and melodic possibilities and compositional precision. He was also especially gifted at orchestration– both in his own compositions and in celebrated arrangements of others’ work. Ravel also drew inspiration from past musical forms, exotic themes, jazz and blues music and Spanish music–largely rooted in his mother’s Basque and Spanish origins.
Ravel studied composition with Fauré and counterpoint with Gédalge at the Paris Conservatoire (). His repeated efforts to win and failure to receive the Prix de Rome, for which he competed four times () caused a public scandal and ultimately led to Fauré replacing the director of the Conservatoire. Always independent and uneasy with the musical establishment of his day, Ravel associated with a group of artists known a
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Boléro
Orchestral composition by Maurice Ravel
This article is about Ravel's piece for orchestra. For Latin music, see Bolero. For other uses, see Bolero (disambiguation).
Boléro is a 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 ability to write music.
Composition
[edit]The work's creation was set in motion by a commission from the dancer Ida Rubinstein, who asked Ravel for an orchestral transcription of six pieces from Isaac Albéniz's set of piano pieces, Iberia. While working on the transcription, Ravel was informed that Spanish conductor Enrique Fernández Arbós had already orchestrated the movements, and that copyright law prevented any other arrangement from being made. When Arbós heard of this, he said he would happily waive his rights and allow Ravel to orchestrate the pieces. But Ravel decided to orchestrate one of his own