Maurice Ravel - www.foto-face.com
Maurice Ravel – www.foto-face.com
* March 7th 1875, Ciboure – † December 28th 1937, Paris
Ravel was a French composer and pianist of the impressionistic period, known especially for the subtlety, richness and poignancy of his music. His piano music, chamber music, vocal music and orchestral music have become staples of the concert repertoire.
Ravel’s piano compositions, such as Jeux d’eau, Miroirs and Gaspard de la Nuit, demand considerable virtuosity from the performer, and his orchestral music, including Daphnis et Chloé and his arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky‘s Pictures at an Exhibition, uses tonal color and variety of sound and instrumentation very effectively.
To the general public, Ravel is probably best known for his orchestral work, Boléro, which he considered trivial and once described as “a piece for orchestra without music.”
According to SACEM, Ravel’s estate earns more royalties than that of any other French musician. Most of Ravel’s works will not enter the public domain until 2015.
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it looks like a nice site, but it would better with multi language support, for example spanish.. but thanks..
umm well this was the worst bio of this guy and if he was still alive i hope he would shoot ya!!!!
RE- post by makdaddy…….”if he was still alive i hope he would shoot ya”.
well its nice to have some americans add to the blog……unfortunately it always has to be about shooting ……….
i think Ravel would have thought it a pretty shitty bio …must agree…..
did you know he died because of some stupid doctor friend of his doctor brother advised some ill-advised surgery?………like van Beethoven and Bach……….killed by well-meaning doctors!
J’ai déja joué à ce jeu mais je le trouve un peu difficile à mon goût. J’atends la suite avec impatience