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.

The foreign music at the exhibition also had a great influence on Ravel ’ s contemporaries Erik Satie, Emmanuel Chabrier, and most significantly Claude Debussy.

Considered “ very gifted ”, Ravel was also called “ somewhat heedless ” in his studies.

With this work, Ravel followed in the tradition of Schumann, Mussorgsky, and Debussy, who also created memorable works of childhood themes.

The first half of the 1920s was a particularly lean period for composing but Ravel did complete successful concert tours to Amsterdam, Milan, London, Madrid, and Vienna, which also boosted his fame.

In his review of Ivry's biography for Library Journal Larry Lipkis is persuaded by Ivry's research that, " There seems to be little question that Ravel was an affected, intensely secretive dandy with gay inclinations ," but also expresses the view that Ivry's work is less persuasive in definitively linking Ravel's sexuality to characteristics of his musical oeuvre.

Ravel also used other folk themes including Hebraic, Greek, and Hungarian.

Ravel also imitates Paganini's and Liszt's virtuoso gypsy themes and technique in Tzigane.

Walter Gieseking found some of Ravel ’ s piano works to be among the most difficult pieces for the instrument but always based on “ musically perfectly logical concepts ”; not just technically demanding but also requiring the right expression.

Ravel ’ s great regard as an orchestrator is also based on his thorough methods.

Many later performances of the opera were also successful, not only with the general public but also with Strauss's peers: Maurice Ravel said that Salome was " stupendous ", and Mahler described it as " a live volcano, a subterranean fire ".

The Orchestra has also had many distinguished guest conductors, including Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Edward Elgar, Morton Gould, Walter Hendl, Erich Kunzel, Erich Leinsdorf, Charles Munch, Eugene Ormandy, André Previn, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Slatkin, Leopold Stokowski, Richard Strauss, George Szell, Michael Tilson Thomas, Bruno Walter, and John Williams.

While in Amsterdam Monteux conducted operas, including Pelléas et Mélisande, its Dutch premiere, Carmen, The Tales of Hoffmann, a Lully and Ravel double bill of Acis et Galatée and L ' heure espagnole, Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride ( also brought to the Paris Opéra ) and Verdi's Falstaff.

The altered scale is also known as the Pomeroy scale ( Bahha & Rawlins 2005, 33 ) ( after Herb Pomeroy ( Miller 1996, 35 )), the Ravel scale ( after Ravel ), and the diminished whole-tone scale ( due to its resemblance to the whole-tone scale ) ( Haerle 1975, 15 ) as well as the dominant whole-tone scale and Locrian flat four ( Service 1993, 28 ).

They also influenced the two French symbolist composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy through their radical tonal language.

Guastavino's musical style marked a stark contrast with the works of his 20th-century Argentine contemporaries such as Alberto Ginastera and reveals the influence of European composers such as Albéniz, Granados, Rachmaninoff, Chabrier, Falla, Debussy, and Ravel, but also is clearly inherited from the luminaries of 19th-century Argentine nationalist composers, such as Alberto Williams, Ernesto Drangosch, Francisco Hargreaves, Eduardo García Mansilla and Julián Aguirre.

From Charles Villiers Stanford, Ireland inherited a thorough knowledge of the music of Beethoven, Brahms and other German classical composers, but as a young man he was also strongly influenced by Debussy and Ravel as well as by the earlier works of Stravinsky and Bartók.

From the early 20th century Prokofiev and Aram Khachaturian each wrote a toccata for solo piano, as did Maurice Ravel as part of Le Tombeau de Couperin, Claude Debussy in his ' Suite: Pour le Piano ' and also " Jardins sous la pluie " ( which is a toccata but not in name ), and York Bowen's Toccata Op.

Although most famous for his Mozart and Beethoven interpretations, Gulda also performed the music of J. S. Bach ( often on clavichord ), Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Debussy and Ravel.

His works also show harmonic influences by Maurice Ravel and especially Alexander Scriabin.

Dutilleux's music extends the legacies of earlier French composers such as Debussy and Ravel but is also clearly influenced by Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky.

The titles on these releases tend to be the compositions of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, and Schubert, also including works by Corelli, César Franck, Ravel, Debussy, Stravinsky and Alban Berg.

His music is modern without being modernist, combining a reverence for the great Austro-German lineage of composers with very personal innovations in harmony and orchestration ( showing an awareness of the output of composers such as Debussy and Ravel, whose piano music he was known greatly to admire, along with a knowledge of more recent composers in his own German-speaking realm, such as Schoenberg, Berg, Hindemith, etc .).

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

The piece was later expanded into a full opera, with music by Satie, Poulenc and 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.

Stravinsky called the ballet " the single piece of modern music he could listen to with pleasure ," while Ravel called it " a work of genius.

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

It was the pianist Arthur Rubinstein, then living in Buenos Aires, who had advised him to study with Ginastera and delving into scores of Stravinsky, Bartók, Ravel, and others, Piazzolla rose early each morning to hear the Teatro Colón orchestra rehearse while continuing a gruelling performing schedule in the tango clubs at night.

Ravel was born in the Basque town of Ciboure, France, near Biarritz, close to the border with Spain, in 1875.

In his younger adulthood, Ravel was usually bearded in the fashion of the day, though later he dispensed with all whiskers.

As the most gifted composer of his class and as a leader, with Debussy, of avant-garde French music, Ravel would continue to have a difficult time with the critics for some time to come.

Around 1900, Ravel joined with a number of innovative young artists, poets, critics, and musicians who were referred to as the Apaches ( hooligans ), a name coined by Viñes to represent his band of " artistic outcasts ".

As Ravel said, “ It is probably better after all for us to be on frigid terms for illogical reasons .” Ravel stoically absorbed superficial comparisons with Debussy promulgated by biased critics, including Pierre Lalo, an anti-Ravel critic who stated, “ Where M. Debussy is all sensitivity, M. Ravel is all insensitivity, borrowing without hesitation not only technique but the sensitivity of other people .” During 1913, in a remarkable coincidence, both Ravel and Debussy independently produced and published musical settings for poems by Stéphane Mallarmé, again provoking comparisons of their work and their perceived influence on each other, which continued even after Debussy ’ s death five years later.

Ravel further extended his mastery of impressionistic piano music with Gaspard de la nuit, based on a collection by the same name by Aloysius Bertrand, with some influence from the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, particularly in the second part.

For future premieres, Ravel replaced Viñes with Marguerite Long.

Also unhappy with the conservative musical establishment which was discouraging performance of new music, around this time Ravel, Fauré, and some of his pupils formed the Société musicale indépendante ( SMI ).

Ravel began work with impresario Sergei Diaghilev during 1909 for the ballet Daphnis et Chloé commissioned by Diaghilev with the lead danced by the famous ballet dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky.

Daphnis et Chloé took three years to complete, with conflicts constantly arising among the principal artists, including Léon Bakst ( sets and costumes ), Michel Fokine ( libretto ), and Ravel ( music ).

During his years at the Conservatoire, Ravel tried numerous times to win the prestigious Prix de Rome, but to no avail ; he was probably considered too radical by the conservatives, including Director Théodore Dubois.

In 1905, Ravel's final year of eligibility for the Prix de Rome, Ravel did not even pass the preliminary test, despite being favored to win one of the two first prizes available.

Caplet finished first over Ravel who was third in the Prix de Rome competition.

Ravel encouraged her to enter the Prix de Rome Competition.

Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Ernest Chausson, and Maurice Ravel attempted the Prix de Rome, but did not gain recognition.

He resigned two months before the refusal to award the Prix de Rome to Maurice Ravel ; this created, nonetheless, a substantial public outcry against him, which was increased by an open letter from the novelist and musicologist Romain Rolland.

He exhibited an unusual talent and originality during his musical education, and won the Prix de Rome in 1901 ahead of Maurice Ravel.

* Berlioz, Ravel, Chausson ( 1994 ) -- CD song cycles with Pinchas Steinberg and the ORF Symphonieorchester ( This recording won the Prix Maurice Ravel award )

On three occasions he won the prestigious Grand Prix du Disque, including one for his recording of the songs of Ravel.

The Friends of the Académie Ravel in Saint-Jean-de-Luz awards the Pierre Bernac Prize in Song ( Prix de chant Pierre Bernac ).

Among his other recordings are those of the complete piano music of Ravel ( for which he was awarded the Grand Prix de l ' Academie Charles Cros and the Grand Prix de l ' Academie du Disque ,) and the Beethoven Violin Sonatas with Zino Francescatti ( of which the Kreutzer Sonata was filmed and has been released on DVD ).

His discography includes the complete piano music of Schoenberg ( Grand Prix du Disque ), Debussy and Ravel and the Sonatas of Boulez, Berg and Barraqué.

* Prix international Maurice Ravel, 1992