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Maurice Ravel, French composer of Swiss-Basque descent, noted for his musical craftsmanship and perfection of form and style in such works as Bolero (1928), Pavane pour une infante defunte (1899; Pavane for a Dead Princess), and Rapsodie espagnole (1907).

by Elsie Gordon snapshot print 1928 © reserved; collection National Portrait Gallery, London

colorized by Jecinci // 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 // source: facebook.com/jecinci

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Maurice Ravel portrait photograph (c. 1928). Ravel (1875 – 1937) was a French music composer who was born in Ciboure, Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

This gallery showcases illustrations drawn for The New York Review by five artists: David Levine, whose more than 3,500 caricatures have illuminated articles published in the Review since 1963; and John Springs, Pancho (Francisco Grails), James Ferguson, and Siegfried Woldhek whose works have been published regularly i

Maurice Ravel, WWI veteran and ambulance driver

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Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Maurice Ravel is another French composer, of Basque descent on his mother’s side, whose family moved to Paris when he was three months old. He entered the Conservatoire in 1889 to study the piano with Beriot and composition with Gabriel Faure. From his earliest works, composed in the late teens, his maturity of style and use of unorthodox harmonies were regarded with suspicion by the academics of the day, and he was repeatedly denied the highest award in the prix de…

Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel.

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Paul Whiteman & Maurice Ravel. Ravel toured the USA for four months in 1928 where he met and befriended fellow composer George Gershwin. Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" had been premiered by bandleader Paul Whiteman. Sadly, Ravel died only a couple of months after Gershwin in December 1937, Gershwin from an unoperable brain tumour, Ravel of a botched brain operation.

Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel