Ecole maurice ravel biography

French composer (–)

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Ecole maurice ravel biography

For other uses, see Ravel (disambiguation).

Joseph Maurice Ravel^{[n 1]} (7 March – 28 December ) 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 s and s 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.

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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 (), in which repetition takes the place of development.

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