Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist known for meticulously crafted orchestral and piano works that combine classical formal clarity with harmonic innovation drawn partly from jazz and non-Western music. His best-known piece, Bolero, builds a single melodic idea over an unchanging rhythmic ostinato through a long, continuous orchestral crescendo, while other works such as Daphnis et Chloe, the Piano Concerto in G major, and his orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition display his renowned skill as an orchestrator. Often grouped with Debussy under the label Impressionist, Ravel resisted the term, favoring a more precise, structurally disciplined style than that label suggests.
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TrainingParis Conservatoire; studied composition with Gabriel Faure after readmission in 1897 1 Connections
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Central figure of musical Impressionism.
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- Also in Geography Atlas: France, nationality there.
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1. Maurice Ravel, Wikipedia
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was a French composer, pianist and conductor.
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7 March 1875
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7 March 1875
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28 December 1937
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28 December 1937
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In 1897 Ravel was readmitted to the Conservatoire, studying composition with Fauré, and taking private lessons in counterpoint with
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His best-known piece, Bolero, builds a single melodic idea over an unchanging rhythmic ostinato through a long, continuous orchestral crescendo, while other works such as Daphnis et Chloe, the Piano Concerto in G major, and his orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition display his renowned skill as an orchestrator.
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