Maurice Ravel met Gershwin in New York during Ravel's tour of the United States.

Erik Satie ’ s Gymnopédie and Maurice Ravel ’ s Pavane pour une infante défunte, composed before World War II, reflect melancholy sentiment without angst in soft, quiet compositions.

The suite of ten piano pieces Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, has been arranged over twenty times, perhaps the most famous and notable being that of Maurice Ravel.

The elegant, harmonically-advanced music in this musical pays indirect homage to the compositions of Maurice Ravel, especially his Valses nobles et sentimentales ( whose opening chord is " borrowed " for the opening chord of the song " Liaisons "); part of this effect stems from the style of orchestration that Jonathan Tunick used.

Elfman's classical influences include Béla Bartók, Philip Glass, Lou Harrison, Carl Orff, Harry Partch, Sergei Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, Igor Stravinsky and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

In 1893 Satie met the young Maurice Ravel for the first time, Satie's style emerging in the first compositions of the youngster.

Meanwhile, Debussy was having one of his first major successes with in 1902, leading a few years later to ‘ who-was-precursor-to-whom ’ debates between the two composers, in which Maurice Ravel would also get involved.

He and Maurice Ravel were generally considered to be the two " great " impressionists.

Maurice Ravel composed many other pieces that are not identified as impressionist and it is unlikely the composer thought of them in those terms.

Vaughan Williams in particular exhibited music infused with impressionistic gestures -- this was not coincidence, as he was a student of Maurice Ravel.

Some composers who have been labeled impressionists are Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, André Caplet, Frederick Delius, Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Erik Satie, Albert Roussel, Alexander Scriabin, Lili Boulanger, Federico Mompou, Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Karol Szymanowski.

The French composer Maurice Duruflé is sometimes said to be " the Ravel of the organ " and is clearly inspired by both Ravel and Debussy in several of his compositions, most notably perhaps the Sicilliene of the Suite pour orgue, op.

Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel are generally considered the greatest Impressionist composers, but Debussy disavowed the term, calling it the invention of critics.

* The classical composition Pavane pour une infante défunte ( 1899 ) by Maurice Ravel

The ballet's premiere in Paris on 17 May 1921 was a huge success and was greeted with great admiration by an audience that included Jean Cocteau, Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel.

Diaghilev commissioned ballet music from composers such as Nikolai Tcherepnin ( Narcisse et Echo, 1911 ), Claude Debussy ( Jeux, 1913 ), Maurice Ravel ( Daphnis et Chloé, 1912 ), Erik Satie ( Parade, 1917 ), Manuel de Falla ( El Sombrero de Tres Picos, 1917 ), Richard Strauss ( Josephslegende, 1914 ), Sergei Prokofiev ( Ala and Lolly, rejected by Diaghilev and turned into the Scythian Suite ; Chout, 1915 revised 1920 ; Le pas d ' acier, 1926 ; and The Prodigal Son, 1929 ), Ottorino Respighi ( La Boutique fantasque, 1918 ), Francis Poulenc ( Les biches, 1923 ) and others.

Arranged for orchestra by Maurice Ravel.

** Maurice Ravel, French composer ( Bolero ) ( b. 1875 )

* March 7 – Maurice Ravel, French composer ( d. 1937 )

* January 14 – Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G debuts with piano soloist Marguerite Long and Ravel conducting the Lamoureux Orchestra.

In some respects, Beiderbecke's playing was sui generis, but he nevertheless listened to and studied the music around him: from Armstrong and Joe " King " Oliver to the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings to Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.

György Ligeti, Johann Sebastian Bach, Maurice Ravel, and Arcangelo Corelli are clearly visible as dominant influences in the early albums.

Birthplace of Maurice Ravel in Ciboure

LTC was popularised by Maurice Harrison-Gray in Country Life magazine in the 1950s and 1960s.

* Maurice Harrison-Gray articles in Country Life magazine in the 1950s and 1960s.

Forster's explicitly homosexual writings, the novel Maurice and the short story collection The Life to Come, were published shortly after his death.

Marshal of France: the Life and Times of Maurice, Comte de Saxe.

Marshal of France, The Life and Times of Maurice de Saxe, Rand McNally & Co., 1962.

* The Life of the Spider ( Translated ) Preface by Maurice Maeterlinck ; Introduction by John K. Terres.

A biography in English is Jon Manchip White's Marshal of France: The Life and Times of Maurice, Comte de Saxe ( Rand McNally & Company, Chicago, 1962 ).

** Maurice White ( arranger ) for " Got to Get You Into My Life " performed by Earth, Wind & Fire

* Maurice Hewlett — The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Maurice Cranston, Life of John Locke

His son Frederick Maurice edited " The Life of Frederick Denison Maurice Chiefley Told in His Own Letters "-Two volumes, Macmillan, 1884.

Black is also an author and historian, having written two memoirs ( A Life in Progress and A Matter of Principle ) and biographies of Maurice Duplessis, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Richard Nixon.

* Listen to an oral history interview with Maurice Wilkins – a life story interview recorded for National Life Stories at the British Library

He is also a villain in Maurice Hewlett's fanciful The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay ( 1900 ).

The Life of Frederick Denison Maurice: Chiefly Told in His Own Letters ( 1885 ) online edition

* Isserman, Maurice ( 2001 ) The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington.

** Maurice White for " Got to Get You Into My Life " performed by Earth, Wind & Fire

* The Encyclopedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary Documents of Everyday Life for the Collector, Curator, and Historian by Maurice Rickards et alia.

* Maurice Foss Building, former Deputy Director of Coventry Polytechnic and one of the University's Honorary Life Fellows.

Image: Maurice Prendergast ( 1858-1924 )-Still Life Apples Vase ( 1913-1915 ). JPG | Still Life Apples Vase ( 1913-1915 )

Image: Maurice Prendergast ( 1858-1924 )-Still Life w Apples ( 1913-1915 ). jpg | Still Life w Apples ( 1913-1915 )