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    Valses nobles et sentimentales is a suite of waltzes composed by Maurice Ravel. The piano version was published in 1911, and an orchestral version was...
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    of Terror. He was born on 24 November 1729 at the Château de Ravel in Auvergne to Charles-François, the Marquis de Saillant and Marie-Henriette Colbert...
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  • 1672) Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956) Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704) Ernest Chausson (1855–1899) Charles-Alexis Chauvet (1837–1871) Nicolas Chedeville...
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    Académie Charles Cros, and that of the New Disk Academy for their integral of the melodies by Honegger (at Timpani). A specialist in Poulenc, Ravel and Debussy...
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    Puy-de-Dôme; they took their name from him. Admiral d'Estaing (Ravel 1729 - Paris 1794), son of Charles-François and Marie-Henrielle de Colbert, played a significant...
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    family and private lessons with Charles-Édouard Lefebvre he entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1890, studying first with Antoine Taudou for harmony. In 1892...
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    Charles Desforest 1681 – No award 1682 – Hyacinthe Rigaud 1683 – Gabriel Benoist 1684 – Gregor Brandmüller 1685 – Nicolas Bertin 1686 – Antoine Dieu...
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  • (1872–1921) Jean Roger-Ducasse (1873–1954) Reynaldo Hahn (1874–1947) Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) Henriette Renié (1875–1956) Armande de Polignac (1876–1962)...
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  • Henri Ghys (category Pupils of Antoine François Marmontel)
    parentage, who is primarily known today as the first piano teacher of Maurice Ravel. Henri (sometimes: Henry) Ghys was born in Toulon, department Var, in the...
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    joy that we welcome his nomination." Piano class of Charles de Bériot in 1895 with Maurice Ravel on the left Fauré in the Director's Office at the Conservatoire...
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    Johannes Brahms, Jules Massenet, Maurice Ravel, and so on. He was in touch with Francis Poulenc, Maurice Ravel, Alfred Cortot, Henri Dutilleux, Olivier...
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    L'heure espagnole (category Operas by Maurice Ravel)
    opera from 1911, described as a comédie musicale, with music by Maurice Ravel to a French libretto by Franc-Nohain, based on Franc-Nohain's 1904 play...
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    L'enfant et les sortilèges (category Operas by Maurice Ravel)
    Parts) is an opera in one act, with music by Maurice Ravel to a libretto by Colette. It is Ravel's second opera, his first being L'heure espagnole. Written...
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    Messager, Giovanni Boldini, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Reynaldo Hahn, Gabriel Fauré, Georges Clairin, Charles Koechlin, and Jacques-Émile Blanche...
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  • division) Charles Henri Guillaume Anthing (général de division) Charles Nicolas d'Anthouard de Vraincourt (général de division) François Louis Antoine (général...
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    Trocadéro, Paris (category Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême)
    Maurice Ravel in Lyon, where it is still in use today. The organ was inaugurated during the 1878 World Fair with a concert in which Charles Marie Widor...
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    Théodore Dubois (category Pupils of Antoine François Marmontel)
    attempt to rig the Prix de Rome competition to prevent the modernist Maurice Ravel from winning. As a composer, Dubois was seen as capable and tasteful, but...
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    and Ravel's friendship was solidified in the year 1932. With Ravel at the podium and Long at the piano, the two toured throughout Europe with Ravel's G...
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    by Berlioz, Liszt and others, foreshadowings of Maurice Ravel, Modest Mussorgsky and Charles Ives. Schumann did, however, respond positively to the pieces...
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    Claude Debussy (category Pupils of Antoine François Marmontel)
    (2011) [1977]. Ravel. New Haven, CN and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10882-8. Orenstein, Arbie (1991) [1975]. Ravel: Man and Musician...
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  • being Jules Massenet, Gabriel Fauré, Antoine Taudou and Daniel Fleuret. Among his fellow students was Maurice Ravel, who became his lifelong friend. He...
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    the best are generally considered to be from the earlier years. Maurice Ravel called Gounod "the true founder of the mélodie in France". The pianist and...
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    Tausend und eine Nacht (1871) Tigran Chukhajian: Zemire (1891) Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade (1898) Ferrucio Busoni: Piano Concerto in C major (1904) Henri...
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    Boréades; Adario, les Indes Galantes; Thésée, Hippolyte et Aricie Maurice Ravel: l’Horloge et le Chat, L'Enfant et les Sortilèges Gioachino Rossini: Dandini...
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  • Tatum O'Neal Ed O'Neill Maulik Pancholy Chris Pang Ashley Park Linda Park Ravel Patel Mandy Patinkin Lauren Patten Sarah Paulson Holly Robinson Peete Piper...
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    three of its poems were adapted to an eponymous piano suite by Maurice Ravel in 1908. Born in Ceva on 20 April 1807, Louis Jacques Napoléon Bertrand...
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    included in the order's official membership. The composers Maurice Ravel and Charles Koechlin, for example, declined the award when it was offered to them...
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  • August 1817, but she died of tuberculosis. Lamartine returned to the lake alone. Antoine Léonard Thomas From Poems in translation. Audiobook version v t e...
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    modernism. He was admired by, and influenced, composers as diverse as Debussy, Ravel, Richard Strauss, Satie, Stravinsky, and the group of composers known as...
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    Halde (1674-1743), rhetorician Charles Porée (1675-1741), and humanist Pierre Brumoy (1688-1742). Composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier, who may have studied...
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