Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with...
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This is a complete list of compositions by Maurice Ravel, initially categorized by genre, and sorted within each genre chronologically in order of date...
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Boléro (redirect from Bolero (Ravel))
Boléro is a 1928 work for large orchestra by French composer Maurice Ravel. It is one of Ravel's most famous compositions. It was also one of his last completed...
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Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major, was composed between 1929 and 1931. The piano concerto is in three movements, with a total playing time of...
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Jeux d'eau (pronounced [ʒø do]) is a piece for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, composed in 1901 and given its first public performance the following year...
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Gaspard de la nuit (redirect from Gaspard de la Nuit (Ravel))
piano d'après Aloysius Bertrand), M. 55 is a suite of piano pieces by Maurice Ravel, written in 1908. It has three movements, each based on a poem or fantaisie...
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The Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major was composed by Maurice Ravel between 1929 and 1930, concurrently with his Piano Concerto in G major....
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Ma mère l'Oye (redirect from Ma mere l'oye (Ravel))
composer Maurice Ravel. The piece was originally written as a five-movement piano duet in 1910. In 1911, Ravel orchestrated the work. Ravel originally...
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Daphnis et Chloé (redirect from Daphnis et Chloé (Ravel))
chorégraphique, or choreographic symphony, for orchestra and wordless chorus by Maurice Ravel. It is in three main sections, or parties, and a dozen scenes, most...
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The Maurice Ravel Auditorium is a concert hall located in Part-Dieu, the 3rd district of Lyon. It was originally built for the National Orchestra of Lyon...
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that rigorous classical study would ruin his jazz-influenced style; Maurice Ravel voiced similar objections when Gershwin inquired about studying with...
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Sonatine is a piano work written by Maurice Ravel. Although Ravel wrote in his autobiography that he wrote the sonatina after his piano suite Miroirs...
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arrangements produced by other composers and contemporary musicians, with Maurice Ravel's 1922 adaptation for orchestra being the most recorded and performed...
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Boléro (2024 film) (category Maurice Ravel)
Maurice Ravel during his preparation of Boléro, as commissioned by Ida Rubinstein. It is loosely adapted from Marcel Marnat's 1986 monograph Maurice Ravel...
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Le Tombeau de Couperin (category Suites by Maurice Ravel)
Tombeau de Couperin (The Grave of Couperin) is a suite for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, composed between 1914 and 1917. The piece is in six movements, based...
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Maurice Ravel completed his String Quartet in F major in early April 1903 at the age of 28. It was premiered in Paris in March the following year. The...
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Pavane pour une infante défunte (category Solo piano compositions by Maurice Ravel)
solo piano by Maurice Ravel, written in 1899 while the French composer was studying at the Conservatoire de Paris under Gabriel Fauré. Ravel published an...
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Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Maurice Ravel. The works were recorded between 1967 and 1982. Piano Concerto No. 1...
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Miroirs (category Suites by Maurice Ravel)
is a five-movement suite for solo piano written by French composer Maurice Ravel between 1904 and 1905. First performed by Ricardo Viñes in 1906, Miroirs...
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Shéhérazade is the title of two works by the French composer Maurice Ravel. Both have their origins in the composer's fascination with Scheherazade, the...
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The Valses nobles et sentimentales is a suite of waltzes composed by Maurice Ravel. The piano version was published in 1911, and an orchestral version...
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Maurice Ravel's Violin and Piano Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano was composed from 1923 to 1927; it was inspired by forms of American music such as...
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Pierre-Joseph Ravel (1832–1908) was a Swiss civil engineer and inventor, father of the composer Maurice Ravel. He was a pioneer of the automobile industry...
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List of program music (section Maurice Ravel)
Program music is a term applied to any musical composition on the classical music tradition in which the piece is designed according to some preconceived...
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Tzigane (redirect from Tzigane (Ravel))
Tzigane is a rhapsodic composition by the French composer Maurice Ravel. The original instrumentation was for violin and piano (with optional luthéal...
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La valse (category Compositions by Maurice Ravel)
orchestre (a choreographic poem for orchestra), is a work written by Maurice Ravel between February 1919 and 1920; it was first performed on 12 December...
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Darius Milhaud, 1920 La Boîte à joujoux, Claude Debussy, 1919 Boléro, Maurice Ravel, 1928 The Bolt, Dmitri Shostakovich, 1931 Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme,...
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allegro pour harpe, flûte, clarinette et quatuor) is a chamber work by Maurice Ravel. It is a short piece, typically lasting between ten and eleven minutes...
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Maurice Ravel's Piano Trio for piano, violin, and cello is a chamber work composed in 1914. Dedicated to Ravel's counterpoint teacher André Gedalge, the...
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Two Hebrew Songs (category Song cycles by Maurice Ravel)
composition of two traditional Hebrew melodies for voice and piano by Maurice Ravel. It was written in 1914. The first song is a setting of the Kaddish...
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