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  Maurice Ravel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The incident—named the Ravel Affair by the parisian press—also led to the resignation of the Conservatoire's director, Théodore Dubois.
Ravel was influenced by composer Claude Debussy, and Debussy by Ravel.
Ravel commented that André Gédalge, his professor of counterpoint, was very important in the development of his skill as a composer.
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 Maurice Ravel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Ravel was influenced by composer Claude Debussy; likewise, the same held true with Debussy in respect to Ravel.
Ravel along with Debussy were the defining composers of the Impressionist movement.
Ravel commented that, his professor of counterpoint, was very important in the development of his skill as a composer.
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 Maurice Ravel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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.
Ravel often stated how vital was his mother's quietly loving presence, calling her his "only reason for living." The song sounds unusually sincere, given that Ravel was already formulating his self-image as insincere dandy.
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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 Ravel's Rise
Ravel's transformation of the office -- both in terms of its internal structure and what she calls her "full-court press" approach to legal matters -- has drawn attention from around the state.
Ravel is also initiating a crackdown on immigration consultants, who by law can only help fill out paperwork, but often scam clients out of thousands of dollars with promises that they can increase their odds of obtaining residency.
Ravel is also introducing a policy that would require outside counsel to complete 30 hours a year of pro bono work as part of their contract with the county.
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 Ravel, Maurice (1875 - 1937)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Ravel wrote two operas, the first, described as a comédie-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.
Songs by Ravel include the remarkable Shéhérazade, settings of a text by Tristan Klingsor for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, and the Don Quichotte à Dulcinée (Don Quixote to Dulcinea) songs, originally written for a film of Don Quixote in which the famous Russian bass Chaliapin was to star.
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.
www.naxos.com /composer/ravel.htm   (512 words)

  
 - Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Ravel's last ballet score was the famous "Bolèro", a work he described as an orchestrated crescendo.
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.
The Sonatina is in Ravel's neo-classical style and Le tombeau de Couperin is in the form of a Baroque dance suite.
www.karadar.it /Dictionary/ravel.html   (524 words)

  
 Essentials of Music - Composers
Ravel is ranked with Debussy as one of the most influential composers at the turn of the twentieth century.
Maurice Ravel is often linked with his countryman Claude Debussy, and there are some important similarities in their music.
In the 1910s and 1920s, Ravel was influenced by the presence in Paris of the Russian Igor Stravinsky and the activities of the Ballets Russes.
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 The Ensemble Sospeso - Maurice Ravel
Although Ravel traveled abroad in his youth, it was not until he was in his fifties that he ventured across the Atlantic.
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.
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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 Planescape: Torment - Ravel's Maze
Anyway, talk to Ravel and greet her (90000 exp), after a while she'll try to touch you, let her and reach out to touch her as well, this leads to the recovery of a memory.
Ask Ravel about herself now, ask who she is, where she is from, if you have any females in your party she will turn into them.
You can also have Ravel teach you the Art, I got 120000 exp, 6 fl-barbed seeds and 1 fl-barbed charm from her lesson, but I was also a lvl 12 specialized mage, if you are not specialized in magery your reward will probably be worse.
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 AllRefer.com - Maurice Ravel (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Maurice Ravel, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
Maurice Ravel[mOrEs´ rAvel´] Pronunciation Key, 1875–1937, French composer, b.
Ravel excelled at piano composition and orchestration, often scoring his own piano pieces and works by other composers.
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 Musical Times: Ravel unravelled
It opens with an examination of Ravel's uneasy relations with authority and moves on to consider influences which can be traced in his work; individual sub-sections are devoted to Chabrier, Debussy and Satie.
Ravel surrounded himself with fake oriental objects in Montfort-l'Amaury, and the essential artificiality of his exotic bibelots finds clear echoes in Ravel's admission that he was `artificial by nature'.
The concluding essay by Roger Nichols on `Ravel and the twentieth century' is an eloquent overview of his musical legacy in France and elsewhere.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3870/is_200001/ai_n8902177   (1002 words)

  
 American Music Teacher: A Ravel Reader: Correspondence, Articles, Inter... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A Ravel Reader provides provacative readings into the life and times of Maurice Ravel by presenting the composer in is own words, both written and spoken.
A Ravel Reader is an outgrowth of author Arbie Orenstein's previous study, Ravel: Man and Musician, published in 1975 by Columbia University Press.
Ravel responds in a frank and open manner to a wide array of questions on many topics, including American composers, Bolero and successful piano concerti.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:118185631&refid=holomed_1   (475 words)

  
 Maurice Ravel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At seven years old, young Maurice began piano lessons and composed pieces beginning about five or six years later.
Ravel would go onto work with ballet choreographer Sergei Diaghilev who staged Ma Mere l'Oye and Daphnis et Chloe.
Classic Cat - Ravel - Free Ravel music.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ravel   (1480 words)

  
 Ravel, Maurice --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Béla Bartók's two sonatas for violin and piano were written for her; Maurice Ravel's Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra and Ralph Vaughan Williams' Violin Concerto were dedicated to her.
French-born U.S. orchestra conductor Pierre Monteux led premieres of compositions by Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel, and Claude Debussy.
He was one of the leading conductors of the 20th century, admired for his elegant and refined interpretations of ballet, opera, and symphonic music.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9062793?tocId=9062793   (533 words)

  
 Lesson Tutor: Classical Composer Biography: Maurice Ravel
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.
I am a jazz rsearcher and am doing a paper on Ravel and Leo Arnaud/Vauchant, the trombonist that assisted Ravel in his use of jazz in his works, especially the trombone 'jazzy' solo in Bolero.
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 Ravel, Maurice on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Classical Music: Maurice's minor mysteries; His music is passionate and distinctive, yet Ravel was a secretive, repressed figure who shunned relationships.(Features)
Ravel: Suite No. 2 from Dapnis et Chloe; Pavane pour une infante defunte; La Valse; Ma Mere l'Oye; Bolero.(Sound Recording Review)
Ravel manuscript beat Mozart's 'Figaro' to set auction record
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 Amazon.ca: Books: Maurice Ravel: A Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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.
This is not simply a matter of prurient interest, as Ivry makes clear, for Ravel's hidden sexuality showed itself in his music, which varied enormously from the early opera L'Heure Espagnole to the famous Bolero, perhaps the most ubiquitous symphonic score of the 20th century.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1566491525   (571 words)

  
 NPR : Bolero's Industrious Nature
But Maurice Ravel didn't strictly have romance in mind when he composed the classic piece a half-century earlier, music commentator Miles Hoffman says.
Ravel, whose roots were in the Basque country on the French-Spanish border, originally called the piece Fandango.
As romantic as it may seem, Ravel said the pulsing, rhythmic composition was inspired by one of the factories he had visited with his father, who was an engineer.
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 French Culture | books: Benjamin Ivry : Maurice Ravel - A Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Maurice Ravel: A Life is the first convincing attempt to paint a portrait of the life and work of the hitherto enigmatic composer of Bolero, Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, and L'enfant et Les Sortilèges.
More than simply "outing" Ravel as a gay man for the first time among numerous writers on this composer, this book discusses how his secretive sexuality impacted his work.
Particularly valuable is his cunning emphasis on the conjugation of artifice with sorcery, unique to Ravel and a foil to most analysis.
www.info-france-usa.org /culture/books/release/music/ivryravel.html   (421 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: R: Ravel, Joseph Maurice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
House of Maurice Ravel - Background information and photograph of his birth home references his ongoing attachment to the town of Ciboure, where he later composed Bolero.
Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) - 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.
Ravel, Joseph Maurice - 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.
dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/R/Ravel,_Joseph_Maurice   (388 words)

  
 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
www.bbc.co.uk /music/profiles/ravel.shtml   (326 words)

  
 CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Maurice Ravel
Ravel, (Joseph) Maurice (b Ciboure, 1875; d Paris, 1937).
In 1911 his comic 1-act opera L'Heure espagnole had not been a success, but was later welcomed for the brilliant piece it is. After service in the 1914-18 war, Ravel captured the savage flavour of the end of an era in his La Valse.
Ravel is conveniently classified with Debussy, but their dissimilarities are more striking and significant.
www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/ravel.html   (848 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Music: Ravel: Piano Works   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
These Ravel recordings are technically flawless throughout, there is not even a single note which is hit with a wrong accent.
Pascal Roges recordings of Ravels great piano works serves as a honest mark of the music that never was, but perhaps might have been.
Ravels piano works are, in all senses, composures of 20th century modernity, suffused with the country-stylised effects of, say, Emmylou Harris, and the impecably marked greenhouse-jubilance connecting all the pieces in one final exotic anti-frenzy makes certain implications on ones ability to hate.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000422W?v=glance   (1295 words)

  
 Maurice Ravel - Classical Composers Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
[in Dutch] Maurice Ravel studeerde compositie in Parijs o.a.
Ravel ontwikkelde zich als een classicistisch componist, die de traditionele vormen met souverein meesterschap wist te hanteren als kader voor zijn vernieuwingen.
Opmerkelijk is ook het veelvuldig voorkomen van dansvormen in zijn werk.
www.classical-composers.org /cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=ravel   (681 words)

  
 Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It is a work that cries out for orchestral color, and several subsequent composers have been unable to resist the challenge.
The first appears to have been the Russian Toushmalov, but the greatest arrangement is unquestionably Ravel's.
A man who would spend hours interviewing instrumentalists to discover new possibilities, yet who had a talent for absorbing different styles, he was the perfect candidate to turn the piano suite into a concert-hall showpiece.
fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu /geoff/prognotes/mussorgsky/pictures.html   (476 words)

  
 Composer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
RAVEL: Bolero / Daphnis et Chloe / Ma Mere L'oye
RAVEL: Rapsodie Espagnole / La Valse / Daphnis et Chloe
RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit / Sonatine / La Tombeau de Couperin
www.naxos.com /composer/btm.asp?fullname=Ravel,+Maurice   (637 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Knights of Malta
It was necessary to organize a financial administration in order to assure the regular payment of revenues of these widely scattered possessions.
This was the task of Hugh of Ravel, seventeen Grand Master of the Holy Land (c.
The lands attached to a single house were placed under the command of a knight of the order, who formerly was called a preceptor, but afterwards took the title of commander.
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