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	Maurice Ravel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ravel's piano compositions, such as Miroirs and Gaspard de la Nuit are virtuosic, and his orchestrations, such as in Daphnis et Chloé and his orchestral arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, are notable for the effective use of tonal color and variety of sound and instrumentation.
		The incident—named the Ravel Affair by the Parisian press—also led to the resignation of the Conservatoire's director, Théodore Dubois.
		Ravel was fond of chords of the ninth and eleventh, and the acidity of his harmonies is largely the result of a fondness for unresolved appoggiaturas (listen to the Valses Nobles et Sentimentales).
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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Maurice Ravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ravel was influenced by composer Claude Debussy, and Debussy by Ravel.
		Ravel was not religious and was probably an atheist.
		Ravel wrote, in 1928, that composers should be aware of both individual and national consciousness.
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	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
		Ravel wrote two operas, the first, described as a comèdie-musicale, L'heure espagnole (The Spanish Clock) and the second, with a libretto by Colette, the imaginative L'enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Enchantments), in which the naughty child is punished when furniture and animals assume personalities of their own.
		Ravel wrote two piano concertos, the first, completed in 1930, for the left hand only, commissioned by the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm in the war, and the second, completed in 1931, for two hands.
		Ravel's chamber music includes the evocative nostalgia of the Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet, a violin sonata with a jazz-style blues movement, a piano trio and a string quartet.
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	Aphasia in Maurice Ravel
		What makes Ravel’s history interesting to the public as well as to physicians is not only the tragic toll exacted in this composer’s personal and creative life but also the resultant loss of the output of one of the 20th century’s towering musical geniuses.
		In 1928 Maurice Ravel accepted a commission from Viennese pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm in World War I. The Concerto For The Left Hand in B Major allowed this disabled artist to overcome a tragic misfortune and resume his occupation as a concert pianist.
		Unfortunately, nothing enabled Ravel to vitiate his own tragedy and continue work as a composer: in 1933, he was struck with aphasia, which robbed him of language and caused his artistic career to come abruptly to an end.
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	Maurice Ravel
		Maurice Ravel was born in 1875 in Ciboure, a small village in the Basque region of France, separated from the city of Saint-Jean-de-Luz by the Nivelle River.
		Maurice Ravel's father, Joseph, was affectionate, with a highly developed love for music and culture, and he did not object when his son embraced an artistic career, despite the family's lack of money.
		Ravel had not yet developed the theory that the piano and violin were "essentially incompatible," and the early sonata is full-hearted, lush music on exalted heights of emotion.
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	Maurice Ravel biography - 8notes.com
		Maurice Ravel: Piano Masterpieces of Maurice Ravel Composed by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937).
		Maurice Ravel: Tzigane Concerto For Violin And Orchestra - Piano Reduction Composed by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937).
		Maurice Ravel: Concerto in G for Piano and Orchestra (Concerto en sol pour Piano et Orchestra) Composed by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), arranged by Lucien Garban.
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	Maurice Ravel
		Ravel’s only String Quartet, often considered his first masterpiece, was composed when he was 28 years old and completing his studies at the Paris Conservatory.
		Ravel was physically a very small man (an attribute he shared with other twentieth century musical giants — Stravinsky, Schönberg, Mahler and Bartok), and besides being small and underweight the doctors said that he had an "enlarged heart".
		Ravel has the violin and cello play their lines in widely spaced octaves, bracketing the piano, achieving a unique texture and sonority.
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		There was a rivalry with Debussy and some dispute about priority in musical discoveries, but Ravel's taste for sharply defined ideas and closed formal units was entirely his own, as was the grand virtuosity of much of his piano music from this period, notably the cycles Miroirs and Gaspard de la nuit.
		Unfortunately, the award was announced publicly before Ravel himself had been informed of the decision and he promptly declined to accept it.
		Ravel's trip across America must have been hard work, but in fact he found that it had one unexpected benefit: A long-time insomniac, he confessed that traveling on the long-distance overnight trains gave him the best night's sleep that he'd had since childhood.
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	Lesson Tutor: Classical Composer Biography: Maurice Ravel
		Maurice Raval was born in the Basque region of France in 1875.
		From first to last Ravel was a master of orchestral and piano writing, with a harmonic style, or musical language, instantly recognizable as his own.
		Taking all these things together, Ravel was one of the most original and influential composers of the twentieth century.
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	ArtsAlive.ca - Music : Great Composers
		In 1875, when Maurice Ravel was born, the world was in a big hurry to change.
		Maurice Ravel was born on March 7, 1875, at Ciboure near the Spanish border.
		Maurice survived the operation and seemed to be recovering, but then lapsed into a coma.
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	BookRags: Maurice Joseph Ravel Biography
		Maurice Ravel was born on March 7, 1875, at Ciboure, Basses-Pyrénées.
		Although Ravel was continually attracted to cultures outside his immediate sphere of acquaintance as sources of musical inspiration--Greece (Mélodies populaires grecques, 1907), the Near East (Schéhérazade, 1903), Palestine (Mélodies hébraïques, 1914), Vienna (Valses nobles et sentimentales, 1911; La Valse, 1920), and Africa (Chansons madécasses, 1925)--the imprint of Spain in his work has special significance.
		Ironically, Ravel may be present in his music much more than he would have wished--in the form of that "reticence" which was a determining factor in his emotional makeup.
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		Ravel wrote his ballet Daphnis et Chloé in response to a commission from the Russian impresario Diaghilev.
		Ravel's last ballet score was the famous Boléro, a work he himself described as an orchestrated crescendo.
		The Sonatine is in Ravel's neo-classical style and Le tombeau de Couperin is in the form of a Baroque dance suite.
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	glbtq >> arts >> Ravel, Maurice
		One of France's most distinguished composers, Maurice Ravel was a prolific and versatile artist who worked in several musical genres, creating stage music (two operas and several ballets), orchestral music, vocal music, chamber music, and piano music.
		He was born Joseph Maurice Ravel on March 7, 1875 at Ciboure, France, near St. Jean de Luz, Basses-Pyrénées, a village close to the French-Spanish border, to a Swiss father and a Basque mother.
		Ravel's most familiar work to contemporary audiences is the Boléro of 1928, which he considered something of a well-orchestrated joke because of its constant repetitions of the same melody.
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	Amazon.ca: Maurice Ravel: A Life: Books: Ivry Benjamin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He comes to this brief but tightly compressed biography of Ravel with a thesisAthat the composer was "a very secretive gay man" whose works often displayed a tension between potent creativity and iron control, a duality that was also exemplified by his life.
		Ravel has always been a mysterious figure, with acquaintances (he had few close friends) willing to swear he was homosexual, heterosexual or simply asexual.
		There seems to be little question that Ravel was an affected, intensely secretive dandy with gay inclinations (he was clearly attracted to many aspects of the gay Parisian subculture, such as its fascination with the Greek god Pan).
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	Maurice Ravel - Music Downloads - Online
		Giving the lie to the idea that turn-of-the-century musical trends were necessarily elite impressionism or "decadent" (whatever that may mean), Ravel's music always speaks directly to the heart in a subtle rhythmic sense through great melody, harmonic richness, and iridescent orchestration.
		(The art of stacking partials in Ravel's Boléro and in the work of Ives predate harmonic synthesis in electronic music by half a century.) Ravel's ballet Daphnis et Chloé, with its gently sustained, wordless vocal chorus amidst heaven-on-earth sound-painting, is probably the finest synthesis of his aesthetic.
		Ravel's melodic abilities and method of making subtle timbre changes by harmonic shift (rather than loud/soft articulation) are beautifully amplified in his piano works, including the famous Sonatine, Gaspard de la Nuit, and in Concerto for Piano (for the left hand in D), which also contain some of his most advanced harmonic writing.
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	The Ensemble Sospeso - Maurice Ravel
		Though Maurice Ravel became closely associated with Paris, he was not actually born there.
		Although Ravel traveled abroad in his youth, it was not until he was in his fifties that he ventured across the Atlantic.
		Ravel began to show signs of neurological problems in 1927, and over the next few years he suffered from muscle problems and aphasia.
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	DanceWorks SideSteps - People: Maurice Ravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ravel's impressionistic leanings are uppermost in the demanding piano suites Miroirs (1905) and Gaspard de la nuit (1908) and in the Rhapsodie espagnole, for orchestra (1908).
		Ravel's stage works include the operas L'heure espagnole (1911) and L'enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Enchantments, 1925; libretto by the French writer Colette); and the celebrated orchestral Boléro (1928), originally for solo dancer, choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska.
		Ravel's last major work was the Piano Concerto for the left hand (1931), written for the Viennese pianist Paul Wittgenstein (1887-1961), who had lost his right arm in World War I. Stricken with a neurological disorder in 1932, Ravel died in Paris on December 28, 1937.
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	RAVEL ~ NOTES Page ~ aMUSIClassical Directory
		Ravel was to be the soloist but due to illness the work was premiered by pianist Margaret Long to whom he dedicated the work.
		Ravel composed his PC for the Left Hand, in 1931, for Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein who lost his right arm in World War I. He premiered the work in Vienna in November of 1931.
		In 1904 Maurice Ravel also wrote the music for the hit song ´Fascination´ allowing destitute friend, F. Raoul Marchetti, take the royalties for the song.
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	Maurice Ravel
		Maurice Ravel was born in 1875 in the town of Cibourne, in the Basque region of France.
		Ravel is generally referred to as an Impressionist, a word which, in the musical world, tends to bring to mind his compatriot, Debussy.
		Today Ravel is known for writing music in all genres, from solo piano to full orchestra, and from single voice to choral and operatic works.
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	Ravel, Maurice - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		RAVEL, MAURICE [Ravel, Maurice], 1875-1937, French composer, b.
		Ravel excelled at piano composition and orchestration, often scoring his own piano pieces and works by other composers.
		Classical Music: Maurice's minor mysteries; His music is passionate and distinctive, yet Ravel was a secretive, repressed figure who shunned relationships.(Features)
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	Maurice Ravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is the scene French composer Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) evokes in "Le Gibet" ("the gallows"), one of three macabre piano pieces that comprise Gaspard de la Nuit, Trois Poemes pour Piano d'apres Aloysius Bertrand.
		Ravel composed this sinister triad after reading the dark, fantastic poetry of Aloysius Bertrand's (the other two pieces are based on the Bertrand poems "Ondine," about a wayward sea nymph, and "Scarbo," about a demonic gnome).
		Ravel augments the unsettling mood of 'Le Gibet' with repeated use of the B-flat, which suggests the ominous sound of the church bell.
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	Maurice Ravel News
		Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Proust, Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy are among those present at the premiere of The Rite of Spring,...
		Ravel's family heritage has been traced to the Collogessous-Saleve, a village in France's Haute-Savoie, home to Ravel's grandfather Aime Ravel.
		Ravel, Debussy and more are part of French Impressions at Roy Thomson Hall...
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	Ciboure House of Maurice Ravel Composer South West of France
		The House where Maurice Ravel the French Composer was born.
		On one of these holidays in 1928 Maurice Ravel wrote the famous melody "Bolero" in a small Hotel in Ciboure the Anchochury.
		Maurice Ravel died on the morning of the 28th of December 1937 and was buried with his Parents in the cemetery of Levallois Perret............
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	Maurice Ravel
		Ravel is ranked with Debussy as one of the most influential composers at the turn of the twentieth century.
		Both used the rich harmonies and new scales that are usually associated with musical impressionism, and both had an interest in the exotic.
		But where Debussy was a sensualist, influenced by the symbolist and decadent movements, Ravel was more of a craftsman and traditionalist, creating a style that was almost neoclassical.
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	BBC - Music / Profiles - Maurice Ravel
		French composer who developed a mature compositional style early on, characterised by a craftsman-like elegance and a mastery of instrumental colour.
		Ravel absorbed influences from classical forms to jazz, writing orchestral music, piano concertos, chamber and keyboard works, opera and ballet.
		With Debussy, Ravel was the defining composer of Impressionism
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