Biography
Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) 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. He liked to experiment with musical form, as in his best-known work, Boléro (1928), in which repetition takes the place of development. Renowned for his abilities in orchestration, Ravel made some orchestral arrangements of other composers' piano music, of which his 1922 version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is the best known.
A slow and painstaking worker, Ravel composed fewer pieces than many of his contemporaries. Among his works to enter the repertoire are pieces for piano, chamber music, two piano concertos, ballet music, two operas and eight song cycles; he wrote no symphonies or church music. Many of his works exist in two versions: first, a piano score and later an orchestration. Some of his piano music, such as Gaspard de la nuit (1908), is exceptionally difficult to play, and his complex orchestral works such as Daphnis et Chloé (1912) require skilful balance in performance.
Ravel was among the first composers to recognise the potential of recording to bring their music to a wider public. From the 1920s, despite limited technique as a pianist or conductor, he took part in recordings of several of his works; others were made under his supervision.
Filmography
all 36
Movies 34
TV Shows 2
self 1
La Bella Amazzone (2021)
Santtu-Matias Rouvali and Alice Sara Ott (2019)
Love Blooms (2019)
Bolero: A Global Hit (2019)
Bolero17 (2018)
Ravel: L'Heure espagnole (2018)
Ma Mere L'Oye (2017)
Hudební perličky Pavla Šporcla (2017)
Tomcat (2016)
Scandal! Alice Sara Ott and Francesco Tristano (2015)
Proem (To Brooklyn Bridge) (2014)
Quarteto Simbólico (2013)
Lionel Bringuier & Nelson Freire Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2013)
Mind in the Wilderness: Khatia Buniatishvili (2013)
Laylou (2012)
Paris Opera Ballet: Tribute to Jerome Robbins (2011)
Low Definition Control — Malfunctions #0 (2011)
Island (2011)
La Valse (2010)
L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (2009)
Fiestapatria (2007)
Stealth (2006)
Ma Mere l'Oye (2004)
The Rape of Chloe (1995)
The Garden (1993)
Cage (1993)
A Heart in Winter (1992)
Bolero (1992)
Die Rede des Odysseus (1984)
Cada ver es... (1983)
Das Grab des Odysseus (1983)
Allegro non troppo (1976)
The Bolero (1973)
La valse (1973)
The House in the Woods (1971)
Umano Non Umano (1969)
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Known ForSound
GenderMale
Birthday1875-03-07
Deathday1937-12-28 (62 years old)
Birth NameJoseph Maurice Ravel
Birth PlaceCiboure, France
Religionatheism
FatherPierre-Joseph Ravel
MotherMarie Ravel
SiblingsÉdouard Ravel
CitizenshipsFrance
Also Known AsМорис Равель
AwardsKnight of the Legion of Honour, Prix de Rome, Legion of Honour, Grammy Hall of Fame
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