Birth and Life

Maurice Ravel

composer

Date of birth 7. 3. 1875
Country of birth France

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Death

Date of death 28. 12. 1937
Cemetery Cimetière Levallois-Perret, Paris, France
GPS coordinates of the cemetery 48.900951, 2.289405

Details:
Plot: Division 16

Summary from Wikipedia

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, Rave ...

Author of contribution: Janez, published 31. 10. 2015

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