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Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel , 1875-1937, French composer, b. in the Pyrenees. He entered the Paris Conservatory in 1889, where he was later a student of Fauré. Ravel became a leading exponent of impressionism . Along with Debussy, with whom he had an affinity of style, he led French music away from Wagner... Read more
Les Six
Les Six , a short-lived group of six young early 20th-century French musicians. They were united by their adverse reactions to the extravagant impressionism of French composers such as Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel and the overwrought romanticism of Germans such as Richard Wagner and Richar... Read more
bolero
bolero , national dance of Spain, introduced c.1780 by Sebastian Zerezo, or Cerezo. Of Moroccan origin, it resembles the fandango . It is in 2-4 or 3-4 time for solo or duo dancing and is performed to the accompaniment of castanets, guitar, and the voices of the dancers. Ravel's Bolero is in this... Read more
Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky , 1839-81, Russian composer. His name is also transliterated as Mussorgsky and Musorgsky. He was one of the first to promote a national Russian style. A member of the minor aristocracy and an officer in the Imperial Guard until 1858, he was later a government clerk. His ... Read more
Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier
Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier , 1841-94, French composer. His best-known works are an orchestral rhapsody, España (1883); an opera, Le Roi malgré lui (1887); and piano pieces, such as Habanera (1885) and Bourrée fantasque (1891). Chabrier's works display vivid harmonic and or... Read more
Longus
Longus , fl. 3d cent. AD, Greek writer. The pastoral romance Daphnis and Chloë is attributed to him. Idyllic in nature, the poem tells the charming story of the love of a goatherd and a shepherdess. Daphnis and Chloë was widely popular in France and England in the 17th and 18th cent. a... Read more
Gabriel Urbain Fauré
Gabriel Urbain Fauré , 1845-1924, French composer; pupil of Saint-Saëns. In 1896 he succeeded Massenet as professor of composition at the Paris Conservatory, and was its director from 1905 to 1920. Among his many pupils were Ravel and Enesco. His works, largely of a refined, intimate qua... Read more
waltz
waltz romantic dance in moderate triple time. It evolved from the German Ländler and became popular in the 18th cent. The dance is smooth, graceful, and vital in performance. The waltz in Vicente Martin's opera Una cosa rara, produced in Vienna (1776), is regarded as the first Viennese wal... Read more
Pierre Monteux
Pierre Monteux , 1875-1964, French-American conductor, studied at the Paris Conservatory. As conductor (1911-14) of Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, he directed the premieres of ballets by Stravinsky, Ravel, and Debussy. He came to the United States in 1916 to conduct the Ballet Russe on its American tour,... Read more
Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev
Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev , 1872-1929, Russian ballet impresario and art critic, grad. St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music, 1892. In 1898 he founded an influential journal, Mir Iskusstva [The World of Art]. He took a company of Russian dancers to Paris (1909) and, with the assistance of the pain... Read more

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Maurice Joseph Ravel
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Maurice Joseph Ravel The French composer Maurice Joseph Ravel (1875-1937) wrote works in an impressionistic idiom that are characterized by elegance and technical perfection. Maurice Ravel was born on March 7, 1875, at Ciboure, Basses-Pyr... Read more
Ravel, (Joseph) Maurice
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Ravel, (Joseph) Maurice (1875–1937) French composer, a leading exponent of Impressionism . Ravel's piano compositions include Jeux d'eau (1901), Gaspard de la nuit (1908), Le Tombeau de Couperin (1917), and two concertos. Among... Read more
Francis Poulenc
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...studied with Ricardo Vines, a friend of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel who had played the first performances of much of their...short biographical study and analysis of his work in Joseph Machlis, Introduction to Contemporary Music (1961... Read more
Arthur Honegger
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...becoming acquainted with the new works of Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and Igor Stravinsky. Because of his study in Switzerland...An Introduction to Twentieth Century Music (1961); Joseph Machils, Introduction to Contemporary Music (1961... Read more

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Ravel, (Joseph) Maurice
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Ravel, (Joseph) Maurice ( b Ciboure, 1875; d Paris, 1937). Fr...After service in the 1914–18 war, Ravel captured the savage flavour of the end...for 3 months) was Vaughan Williams . Ravel is conveniently classified with Debussy... Read more

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Chamber concert will emphasize French music.(Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 5/25/2003; 603 words ; ...will emphasize French repertoire, including songs by Lili Boulanger, a woodwind trio by Joseph Canteloube, the Claude Debussy violin sonata and Maurice Ravel's only string quartet. The concert also will include Eric Ewazen's Horn Sonata, a piece... Read more
Sixteen local associations receive grants. (Foundation News).(Illustration)
Magazine article from: American Music Teacher; 6/1/2003; 398 words ; ...following: Spokane Chapter, WA Ethnic and Folk Influences Joseph Smith, on Major Composers presenter Roseburg District...District, OR The Life and Piano Music Dan Glover, of Maurice Ravel presenter Central Pennsylvania How Children Learn: A... Read more
The Hoax.
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 11/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...the mysterious and enigmaic Charles Joseph Pym. It seems at first something of...biography of a composer -- this time Maurice Ravel. It transpired that Pym had written...to Max Harris) throwing new light on Ravel's life and especially -- to Julius...importance -- a hitherto unknown work by ... Read more
Hal Leonard issues Classical Fake Book. (Hal Leonard Publishing Corp.) (Product News) (Product Announcement)
Magazine article from: Music Trades; 11/1/1992; 245 words ; ...Gounod, Edvard Grieg, George Frederick Handel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Aram Khatchaturian, Franz Liszt, Gustav Mahler...Giacomo Puccini, Henry Purcell, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann... Read more
Music artists flock to coast.(Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 7/12/2002; 274 words ; ...Heredia and pianists Cesar Cancino, Dennis Helmrich, Joseph Kubera, David Sigal and Jeanne Stark-Iochmans. The vocalists...Camille Saint-Saens, Richard Strauss, Gabriel Faure and Maurice Ravel. Saturday's 8 p.m. concert will feature operatic arias... Read more
Composer classification list.
Magazine article from: American Music Teacher; 4/1/2005; 700+ words ; ...Impressionistic (I); Contemporary (Con) Achron, Joseph Con Albeniz, Isaac R Albeniz, Mateo...Ferdinand R Debussy, Claude I Dela, Maurice Con Delibes, Leo R Dello Joio, Norman...Hartley, Walter Con Haydn, Franz Joseph C Heiden, Bernard Con Henselt, Adolph...Con Kabalevsky, Dmitri Con Kail, Joseph R ... Read more
Composer Classification List.
Magazine article from: American Music Teacher; 8/1/2003; 700+ words ; ...Contemporary (Con) Accolay R Achron, Joseph Con Albeniz, Isaac R Albeniz, Mateo...Ferdinand R Debussy, Claude I Dela, Maurice Con Delibes, Leo R Dello Joio, Norman...Hartley, Walter Con Haydn, Franz Joseph C Heiden, Bernard Con Henselt, Adolph...Con Kabalevsky, Dmitri Con Kail, Joseph R Kennan, ... Read more
Composer classification list.(List)
Magazine article from: American Music Teacher; 4/1/2008; 700+ words ; ...Con) Accolay, Jean-Baptiste R Achron,Joseph Con Albeniz, Isaac R Albeniz, Mateo...Mily R Balay, Guillaume R Barat, Joseph Edouard R/Con Barber, Samuel Con Bartok...Ferdinand R Debussy, Claude I Dela, Maurice Con Delibes, Leo R Dello Joio, Norman...B Hartley, Walter Con Haydn Franz Joseph C Heiden, ... Read more
Composer classification list.(Illustration)
Magazine article from: American Music Teacher; 6/1/2004; 700+ words ; ...Contemporary (Con) Accolay R Achron, Joseph Con Albeniz, Isaac R Albeniz, Mateo...Ferdinand R Debussy Claude I Dela, Maurice Con Delibes, Leo R Dello Joio, Norman...B Hartley Walter Con Haydn, Franz Joseph C Heiden, Bernard Con Henselt, Adolph...Con Kabalevsky, Dmitri Con Kail, Joseph R Kennan, ... Read more
And now for something `seriously' Gershwin ...(Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 8/4/2002; 700+ words ; ...place, a period, even as (Wolfgang) Mozart and (Franz Joseph) Haydn were representative of a time and a place; they...who introduced him to the music of Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schoenberg and a smattering of the classical... Read more