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.

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 .).

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

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.

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.

Each movement is dedicated to a friend of Ravel's who died in the war, with the final movement dedicated to the deceased husband of Ravel ’ s favorite pianist Marguerite Long.

It is a source of joy and pride for your old professor .” In 1922, Ravel completed his Sonata for Violin and Cello.

There is a story that when Gershwin met Ravel, he mentioned that he would like to study with the French composer.

As Ravel stated, “ In a work of this kind, it is essential to give the impression of a texture no thinner than that of a part written for both hands .” Ravel, not proficient enough to perform the work with only his left hand, demonstrated it with two-hands and Wittgenstein was reportedly underwhelmed by it.

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.

Critics termed the piece " a jolting debut: a clumsy plagiarism of the Russian School " and called Ravel a “ mediocrely gifted debutante ... who will perhaps become something if not someone in about ten years, if he works hard .”

Joseph-Maurice Ravel ( March 7, 1875December 28, 1937 ) was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects.

Ravel is not known to have had any intimate relationships, and his personal life, and especially his sexuality, remain a mystery.

In his Maurice Ravel: A Life, published in 2000, biographer Benjamin Ivry presents evidence in support of his thesis that Ravel's lack of known intimate relationships may be explained if he was a " very secretive " gay man.

Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is best known through its orchestration by Ravel.

This composition, best known through an orchestral arrangement by Maurice Ravel, was written in commemoration of his friend, the architect Viktor Hartmann.

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 ).

Ravel is particularly well known for his Miroirs suite for piano and lesser known for Le tombeau de Couperin, both requiring tremendous skill and dexterity from the pianist.

Internationally known merengue singers and groups include Fernando Villalona, Juan Luis Guerra, Eddy Herrera, Toño Rosario & Los Hermanos Rosario, Los Toros Band, Sergio Vargas, Wilfrido Vargas, Johnny Ventura, Bonny Cepeda, Miriam Cruz & Las Chicas Del Can, Joseito Mateo, Luis Ovalles, the aforementioned Angel Viloria, El Cieguito de Nagua, Kinito Mendez, Ravel, Jossie Esteban y la Patrulla 15, Pochy y su Cocoband, Cuco Valoy, The Freddie Kenton Orquestra, Ramón Orlando, Sandy Reyes, Rasputin, Peter Cruz, Alex Bueno, Aramis Camilo, Jochy Hernández, El Zafiro, Dioni Fernandez, The New York Band, Anibal Bravo, Conjunto Quisqueya, Olga Tañón, Gisselle, and Grupomanía.

It became known as the " musical centre of the Empire ", and the leading musicians of the late 19th and early 20th century performed there, including Claude Debussy, Edward Elgar, Maurice Ravel and Richard Strauss.

He was influential with Ravel supplying him many readings and was a member of the group known as Les Apaches.

Eventually, Ravel offered the premiere and dedicated the concerto to Marguerite Long, who was known for her performances of the works of Fauré and Debussy and had earlier asked Ravel for a new work.

He is known for his interpretation of Ravel, Chopin and Beethoven.

She became known in the 1970s in particular for her premiere recordings of the 10 sonatas of Scriabin and the complete solo piano works of Rachmaninoff, for her Ravel recordings and in the last 16½ years before her death for her series in the Metropolitan Museum of Art “ Concerts with Commentary ”.

Two years earlier Ravel had met Ricardo Viñes, who would become one of his best friends, one of the foremost interpreters of his piano music, and an important link between Ravel and Spanish music.

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

Arranged for orchestra by Maurice Ravel.

Though obviously talented at the piano, Ravel demonstrated a preference for composing.

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.

One of the first works Ravel performed for the Apaches was Jeux d ' eau, his first piano masterpiece and clearly a pathfinding impressionistic work.

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.

The scandal – named the " Ravel Affair " by the Parisian press – engaged the entire artistic community, pitting conservatives against the avant-garde, and eventually caused the resignation of Dubois and his replacement by Fauré instead of Lenepveu, a vindication of sorts for Ravel.

In 1899, Ravel conducted his first orchestral piece, Shéhérazade, and was greeted by a raucous mixture of boos and applause.

Around 1922, Ravel completed his famous orchestral arrangement of Mussorgsky ’ s Pictures at an Exhibition, commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky, which through its widespread popularity brought Ravel great fame and substantial profit.

After returning to France, Ravel composed his most famous and controversial orchestral work Boléro, originally called Fandango.

During his life Ravel studied the ability of each orchestral instrument carefully in order to determine its possible effects while being sensitive to individual color and timbre.

Despite what he considered its technical deficiencies, Ravel was a strong advocate of Russian music and praised its spontaneity, orchestral color, and exoticism.

Boulez made a series of quadraphonic recordings for Columbia, including an extensive series of the orchestral music of Maurice Ravel.

* October 19-Maurice Ravel orchestral arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is premiered in Paris

Boléro is a one-movement orchestral piece by Maurice Ravel ( 1875 – 1937 ).

Before Boléro, Ravel had composed large scale ballets ( such as Daphnis et Chloé, composed for the Ballets Russes 1909 – 1912 ), suites for the ballet ( such as the second orchestral version of Ma Mère l ' Oye, 1912 ), and one-movement dance pieces ( such as La Valse, 1906 – 1920 ).

The work had its genesis in a commission from the dancer Ida Rubinstein, who asked Ravel to make an orchestral transcription of six pieces from Isaac Albéniz's set of piano pieces, Iberia.

Ravel reportedly said about Scarbo: " I wanted to write an orchestral transcription for the piano.

Ravel transcribed many of his piano pieces for orchestra, but here he reaches the height of his orchestration skills, turning a very pianistic piece into a superb orchestral suite with very few hints of its origins.

* Boléro, an orchestral work by Maurice Ravel, originally commissioned as a ballet score by danseuse Ida Rubinstein which premiered in 1928

Maurice Ravel memorialized him in his Le tombeau de Couperin, dedicating the closing Toccata to him ( the sixth part of the piano version, but absent in the orchestral arrangement ).

Rapsodie espagnole is an orchestral rhapsody written by Maurice Ravel.

In the early 20th century, many orchestral scores incorporated wordless choruses ( especially female choruses ) for coloristic effects, and such choruses may be found in works by Debussy, Ravel, Vaughan Williams, Holst, and in many film scores.

The most notable use of the sopranino is in the orchestral work Boléro by Maurice Ravel.