Composer
Maurice Ravel
French composer (1875–1937)
1875–1937
467 works in the index
- Era
- Modern
- Nationality
- France
- Born in
- Ciboure
Maurice Ravel, who was born in a Basque fishing village close to the Spanish border, came to Paris as a baby, and was taking piano lessons when he was six. In the early years of the new century he helped create the Société Musicale Independante (SMI), which then (in 1910) premiered his piano solo “Ma mère l'oye,” (Mother Goose), based on the folktales collected by Charles Perrault. This was later scored for a full orchestra and still later choreographed as a ballet. During the first world war Ravel was driving a truck as his day job, while composing “Le Tombeau de Couperin,” a suite for solo piano in six movements. Ravel died after experimental brain surgery in late 1937 and was buried at Levallois-Perret, near Paris, on December 30 that year. His best known legacy is his Boléro, a fifteen-minute orchestral work that consists of an initial theme and counter-theme repeated in a constant crescendo building to a thunderous conclusion
Catalogue
Works page 10 of 10
Trois Poemes de Stephane Mallarme - I. Soupir
Trois Poemes de Stephane Mallarme - II. Placet futile
Trois Poemes de Stephane Mallarme - III. Surgi de la croupe et du bond
Deux Melodies Hebraiques - I. Kaddisch
Deux Melodies Hebraiques - II. L'Enigme Eternelle
Trois Chansons - I. Nicolette
Trois Chansons - II. Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis
Trois Chansons - III. Ronde
Piece en Forme de Habenera
Two Pieces
Une Barque Sur l'Océan
A la Manière de Borodine -- Valse
A la Manière de Chabrier -- "Paraphrase Sur un Air de Gounod"
Les Entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête
Ravel Bolero, for string quartet, CR302
Ravel Pavane for a Dead Princess
Pavane for a Dead Princess [Pavane pour une Infante Defunte]
Ravel - Mother Goose Suite Selections for Flute and Bassoon Duet
Mother Goose Suite - Concert Band
La Vallée des Cloches
Allegramente
Adagio assai
Presto
Ravel - Mother Goose Suite Selections for Oboe and Bassoon Duet
Preface
Vorwort
2 Fasimile des Autographs
Ravel - Mother Goose Suite Selections for Flute and Clarinet Duet
Ravel - Mother Goose Suite Selections for Clarinet Quartet
Ravel Bolero CR302
Ravel - Mother Goose Suite Selections Bassoon Duet
Ravel Bolero, for piano duet, PR801
Ravel: Trois Chansons arr.clarinet quartet
Ravel: Ma Mère L’Oye Mvt V. Le jardin féerique arr.wind quintet
Lento
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