Maurice Ravel
Born: 7th March 1875, Ciboure, France
Died: 28th December 1937, Paris, France
Nationality: French
Joseph Maurice Ravel 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 1920s and 1930s 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 by 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.
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Further Reading: Ravel
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Ravel 150th Anniversary
18th Mar 2025
2025 is Ravel's 150th anniversary year. To celebrate we explore Breitkopf & Härtel’s catalogue of Ravel's works including Boléro, L'heure Espagnole, Le Tombeau de Couperin, and more.
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Woodwind
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Brass
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Strings
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Piano & Keyboard
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Vocal & Choral
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Guitar
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Folk Instruments
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Percussion
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Chamber Music
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Ensembles & Scores
Popular Works: Ravel
- A la manière de Borodine (10)
- Berceuse sur le nom de Fauré (12)
- Boléro (123)
- Cinq mélodies populaires grecques (14)
- Daphnis et Chloé (10)
- Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 1 (11)
- Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2 (17)
- Deux mélodies hébraïques (11)
- Deux mélodies hébraïques: Kaddisch (37)
- Gaspard de la Nuit (12)
- Habanera (24)
- Introduction & Allegro (22)
- Jeux d'eau (18)
- L'enfant et les sortilèges (11)
- L'heure Espagnole (14)
- La Valse (31)
- Le Tombeau de Couperin (37)
- Le Tombeau de Couperin: Menuet (17)
- Le Tombeau de Couperin: Rigaudon (11)
- Ma Mère l'Oye (42)
- Ma Mère L'Oye: Laideronnette, Imperatrice des Pagodes (11)
- Ma Mère L'Oye: Le jardin féerique (10)
- Menuet antique (12)
- Menuet sur le nom de Haydn (17)
- Miroirs, M.43 (15)
- Miroirs, M.43: No. 4 Alborada del gracioso (19)
- Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant (14)
- Pavane pour une infante défunte (240)
- Piano Concerto in D major (for the left hand) (16)
- Piano Concerto in G major (24)
- Piano Trio in A minor (13)
- Prélude in A minor, M.65 (15)
- Rapsodie Espagnole (20)
- Sonatine (26)
- Sonatine: Mouvement de Menuet (12)
- String Quartet in F major (18)
- Trois chansons, M69 (11)
- Tzigane (22)
- Valses nobles et sentimentales (24)
- Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera (38)
