Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel Joseph Maurice Ravel is French and lived from the 7th of March 1875 to the 28th of December 1937. He was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with and along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was known 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. The treatment he was under caused a scandal. After leaving the Conservatoire, Ravel found his own way as a composer, developing a style of great clarity, incorporating genres of baroque, neoclassicism and, in his later works,…

Born to a poor family in France, Claude Debussy arrived into the world on August 22, 1862. He became the oldest of five children. By the time he turned nine, he showed gift as a pianist. Madame Maute de Fleurville encouraged him and in 1873 he entered the Paris Conservatory. He studied piano and composition. While living in poverty, Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck discovered him. She engaged him to play duets with her and her children. He often traveled with her throughout Europe during the summer…

1) Maurice Ravel composed the piece Ravel: Bolero. In this version it is being conducted by Daniel Barenboim and performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. 00:00 Starts off at pianississimo with just a drum and a pluck of a single cord continuously playing creating the beat for the whole piece. There is a slow tempo at this point. 00:12 What seems to be a woodwind instrument comes in at this point, preforming the main part that seems to be played over and over again throughout the whole piece.…

Claude Debussy, born August 22 1862and died at the age of 56 on the 25th of March 1918. He was born in France and is known as a very influential composer of the 19th century going into the 20th century. Debussy started piano lessons when he was 7 and at age 10 he left to go study many musically related things such as: music history, harmony, and composition. Debussy was considered to change music in such a way that no one had ever heard of. He did this through the development of dissonances…

Debussy's Musical Impressionism "I have no hobbies...They never taught me anything but music." ––Claude Debussy. He brought an entirely new musical style into the public eye; he expressed visual phenomena by appealing to auditory senses; he stepped outside of the grasp of Romanticism, yet still followed its pathways; he paved the road for nearly all modern music to be composed after him; he altered music history. Claude Debussy was nothing if not an absolute master of the art of composition,…

prompted pessimism. By that time, there was a sense that progress could not continue forever. Old ideas and values no longer necessary and romanticism reached its limit in arts. Especially in music, Romanticism seems overextended which means music can no longer be longer, grander, more expressive. Because of this reason, the ‘modernist’ movement driven by pessimism for change in the early 20th century and it aimed to move away the ideas of romanticism. The emergence of modernism, which rejects…

Claude-Achille Debussy, born August 22, 1862; Debussy was a composer is a born and raised in the Country of France. Claude Debussy was born and grew in a poor family in France of 1862; he was the oldest of five children. At the age of seven Debussy began piano lessons with an Italian violinist named Jean Cerutti. “When Debussy was 22, he won the Prix de Rome, which financed two years of musical study in the Italian capital. After the turn of the century, Debussy established himself as the…

Claude Debussy was born in the year 1862 near Paris, France. His birth name was Achille-Claude Debussy. When Debussy was a young boy, his aunt Clementine set up his first piano lessons with Jean Cerutti. In 1871, his father was arrested and he was sent to live with Antoinette Maute. While living with Maute, Debussy was enrolled in the Paris conservatory and began attending classes in 1872. While he was there he studied under Antoine Marmontel and Albert Lavignac. Even though he was a skilled…

Achille-Claude Debussy was born on the day of August 22, 1862 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. He was the oldest of five children, and immediately showed an amazing artistic ability in music despite that his family had little money. He soon became a household name, traveling for inspiration for his music. He had many affairs, sometimes even working for the woman’s husband! He married twice, and had one child; he died of colon cancer in 1918 in Paris. His most well-known attribute is that he is…

Joseph Maurice Ravel was a 20th century French composer who was regarded as France’s greatest living composter in the 1920’s and 30’s. He completed 85 works, although many were unfinished or abandoned. His works included pieces such as Daphnis et Chloe, Rapsodie espagnole and Bolero, his most famous composition, which was a one movement orchestral piece. He wrote pieces for piano, chamber music, two piano concerti, ballet music, opera and song cycles. His style of music was impressionism. He…