Maurice Ravel

By creating a positive barrier between his Infantry and the enemy, it allowed for his men to deliver more accurate and deliberate fire at a greater pace and potentially avoiding every engaging in hand to hand combat. By using terrain to support the rifle fire, Marshal de Saxe effectively multiplied his armies effectiveness against the enemy without risking control of the battlefield that comes with hand to hand combat and battle lines mixing. His ideas and tactics found within Reveries on the…

Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a 19th and early 20th century French composer of classical music. Maurice Ravel was born on March 7, 1875, in Ciboure, France. His mother, Marie Delouart was Basque and father, Joseph Ravel was from Switzerland. At his third month, his family moved to Paris. His brother, Édouard Ravel was born in Paris after three years of their moving. There was no evidence of Ravel’s entering a school for his formal Education. However, acknowledging his passion in the early age,…

The Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major was composed by Maurice Ravel between 1929 and 1930, simultaneously with his Piano Concerto in G Major. This piece was commissioned by Paul Wittgenstein, an Austrian pianist who had lost his right arm in World War I. Despite having been wounded during the war, Wittgenstein pursued a concert career and devoted himself to playing with the left hand. He gained great success in Europe with his great virtuosity that allowed him to overcome…

ARABESQUE no. 1 Title & opus/catalogue no.: Arabesque No.1. Andantino con moto Composer background: Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Him, along with Maurice Ravel were the most outstanding people related to Impressionist music. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His music is noted for its sensory and sonic content and the use of nontraditional tonalities. The French literary technique of his period was known as Symbolism. This…

the Conservatory of Music of Brooklyn College. There were four pieces of music during this concert. The first piece was Belshazzar’s Gastabud (Belshazzar’s Feast), op.51 by Jean Sibelius. The second piece of music was Le Tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel. The third piece of music was Le Festin De L’araignee (The Spider’s Feast), op. 17 by Albert Roussel. The last piece of music was Symphony No.1 in D major, “Classical,” op.25 by Sergie Prokofiev. As soon as I was situated, I observed that it…

recital that I chose to watch was by Yuja Wang during the 15th edition of the Verbier Festival & Academy. The recital takes place on the 29 of July in 2008. Yuja Wang played La Valse by Maurice Ravel. Maurice Ravel stated La Valse in 1906, then called Wien, but didn’t finish it until 1920.[1] Ravel used different forms of dynamics to make the piece unique. The piece would move from mezzo piano to forte. This switching from mezzo piano to forte would vary throughout the piece. For…

Classical Music Experience Have you ever attended a classical music concert where all sit silently and enjoy the performance? I have attended this wonderful concert on July 21, at 8 pm. This concert is an outdoor concert and it was located at Hollywood Bowl. The name of this concert is called “Rhasody in Blue” with Yuja Wang and Dudamel were the main performer. Because this is an outdoor concert, and it started when the sky already dark, so the weather was really cool which make the…

"O Fortuna" was a Medieval Latin Goliardic poem written early in the 13th century and is part of the collection known as the Carmina Burana. In 1935-36, "O Fortuna" was set to music by German composer Carl Orff as a part of "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi", the opening and closing movement of his cantata Carmina Burana. It starst off with a slow pace having pounding drums and choir that drops quickly into a quiet whisper then builds slowly into a steady crescendo of drums and short string and horn…

Contemporary period is a big-mixed era in the world. Many materials and ideas all can put into music or art works. In this research paper, I will talk about the background of the contemporary era, composers of the contemporary period, the modernism and many different styles of music in this period. This piece I want to talk about, is the horn sonata, wrote by Paul Hindemith. This piece is a good piece to describe the music of the contemporary period because we still perform this at present, and…

Shawn Wright. The Busoni arrangement performance was electrifying and scintillating, such that, one felt like this was the first ever performance of the piece. The next piece was the Nauges from Nocturnes by Claude Debussy (1862-1918), arranged by Maurice ravel (1875). The piece was an orchestral composition that involved three movements (the clouds, festivals and the sirens) the melody throughout the piece was beautiful up to the last…