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Bolero - The Life of Maurice Ravel

June 2, 2019

In reading this one must take into account it was written and published less than 18 months after the passing of Maurice Ravel accordingly it is most admirable in its construction and commentary on his life. Having said that one must be aware that this is not a "biography" in the true sense of the word. Ms. Goss has based a good deal of her commentary using Ravel's key compositions as events around which she ties in aspects of his life and times. This is a great idea considering as I said already hers was the first biography of the composer. She stays well within the lines of facts and commentary from friends, colleagues and family (her detailed listings of his works chronologically is one of the best I have seen). This is an "amuse-bouche" as one seeks a biography that provides more of what I seek; that is who was Maurice Ravel? and what made him the magical composer that he was? Now my search expands, not for salacious gossip (yes, I speak of the theorems on his sexuality that inhabit at least one recent bio), but for knowledge o

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The Story Of Ravel's Boléro

Before he left for a triumphant tour of North America in January 1928, Maurice Ravel had agreed to write a Spanish-flavoured ballet score for his friend, the Russian dancer and actress Ida Rubinstein (1885-1960).

The idea was to create an orchestral transcription of Albeniz’s piano suite Iberia. But on his return Ravel discovered that the orchestration rights had been granted to the Spanish conductor Enrique Arbós. Although Arbós generously gave up these rights, Ravel abandoned the idea and set about preparing an original score.

Ravel had long toyed with the idea of building a composition from a single theme which would grow simply through harmonic and instrumental ingenuity. Boléro’s famous theme came to him on holiday in Saint-Jean-de-Luz.

He was about to go for a swim when he called a friend over to the piano and, playing the melody with one finger, asked: “Don’t you think that has an insistent quality? I’m going to try to repeat it a number of times without any development, gradually incr

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Maurice Ravel

French composer (1875–1937)

"Ravel" redirects here. For other uses, see Ravel (disambiguation).

Joseph Maurice Ravel^{[n 1]} (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded 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, whose biased treatment of him caused a scandal. After leaving the conservatoire, Ravel found his own way as a composer, developing a style of great clarity and incorporating elements of modernism, baroque, neoclassicism and, in his later works, jazz. He liked to experiment with musical form, as in his best-known work, Boléro (1928), in which repetition takes the place of development. Renowned for his abilities in orchestration, Ravel made some orchestral arran