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Maurice Ravel
Born into a cultivated, music-loving bourgeois family, to a Swiss father and a
Basque mother, Maurice Ravel showed a talent for the piano. He entered the Paris
Conservatoire. A pupil of Gabriel Fauré and Emmanuel Chabrier, he made friends
with Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Poe, Stéphane Mallarmé and later Manuel de Falla,
Jean Cocteau, Igor Stravinsky, Serge de Diaghilev, Colette and Toulouse-Lautrec.
He failed to win the Grand Prix de Rome because of Jules Massenet, and fought in
the First World War at Verdun. He refused the Légion d'honneur ("but all his
music accepts it", said Eri...
Make BelieveGeorge Gershwin and Maurice Ravel
Piano Rolls
3:09
Chanson a Boire from DonQuichotte a DulcineeMaurice Ravel
1:47
Chanson Romanesque from DonQuichotte a DulcineeMaurice Ravel
2:21
L’ enigme Eternelle- Deux Mélodies HébraïquesMaurice Ravel
1:35
Chanson Epique from DonQuichotte a DulcineeMaurice Ravel
2:36
Kaddisch- Deux Mélodies HébraïquesKanako Kimura and Maurice Ravel
5:07
