[JOSEPH] MAURICE RAVEL

 (1875-1937)

 French composer - incidentally not Jewish, certain commentators
 notwithstanding.

 His family moved from the Pyrenees to Paris before he was one.

 Pupil of Fauré and others at the Paris Conservatoire.

 Failed in three attempts for the French Rome Prize, and was unfairly barred (although he had already works published and performed) from a fourth try.

 Notable for IMPRESSIONIST technique (more clear-cut, however, than
 Debussy's), mastery of orchestration and innovations in exploiting the sonorities of the piano.

 Piano works include 2 concertos (one for left hand), sonatina, suites
 GASPARD DE LA NUIT  and MIRRORS (including ALBORADA del gracioso); also (all later transcribed for orchestra), PAVAN FOR A DEAD INFANTA, and many other works including THE GRAVE OF COUPERIN, BOLERO, SPANISH RHAPSODY, and LA VALSE for orchestra.
MOTHER GOOSE, THE SPANISH HOUR, and THE CHILD AND THE SPELLS, and many more.

Visited England (Hon. D. Mus., Oxford, 1928) and USA; died in Paris... refused the Legion of Honour.

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