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.

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.

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.

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 .”

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 ".

Alfred Edwards, editor of Le Matin, who had taken particular interest in the incident, took Ravel on a seven-week canal trip on his yacht Aimée through the Low Countries in June and July 1905, the first time Ravel traveled abroad.

Debussy was older than Ravel by some twelve years and his pioneering Prélude à l ' après-midi d ' un faune was influential among the younger musicians including Ravel, who were impressed by the new language of impressionism.

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.

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

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.

These trends posed challenges for Ravel, always a slow and deliberate composer, who desired to keep his music relevant but still revered the past.

The work was commissioned by Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm during World War I. Ravel was inspired by the technical challenges of the project.

Ravel dedicated the work to his favorite pianist, Marguerite Long, who played it and popularized it across Europe in over twenty cities, and they recorded it together in 1932.

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

At a 1918 concert this work attracted the interest of Maurice Ravel, who recommended him to his publisher.

Early in his career Delius drew inspiration from Chopin, later from his own contemporaries Ravel and Richard Strauss, and from the much younger Percy Grainger, who first brought the tune of Brigg Fair to Delius's notice.

Once in the maze, The Nameless One converses with Ravel, who asks him, " What can change the nature of a man?

Ravel is pleased with The Nameless One's answer because he offers his own thoughts ; she claims she has killed many men in the past who, instead of giving their own answers, tried to guess what her answer might be.

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.

However, Ravel did criticize Debussy sometimes, particularly regarding his orchestration, and he once said, " If I had the time, I would reorchestrate La mer.

In French opéra comique, supporting roles requiring a thin voice but good acting are sometimes described as ' trial ', after the singer Antoine Trial ( 1737 – 1795 ), examples being in the operas of Ravel and in The Tales of Hoffmann.

When criticised for composing a light-hearted, and sometimes reflective work rather than a sombre one, for such a sombre topic, Ravel replied: " The dead are sad enough, in their eternal silence.

Already on the edge of musical thought when he left Poland ( critics questioned his chromatic and sometimes polytonal writing ), he adopted the extended harmonies of Ravel in his work and later was compared to Alexander Scriabin in his departure from conventional tonality.

Written on the manuscript by Ravel, and often included on published editions, is the text " Dieu fluvial riant de l ' eau qui le chatouille ..." a quote from Henri de Régnier's Cité des eaux, which in English editions is sometimes translated to " River god laughing as the water tickles him ...".

A later recording, made in Paris in 1932 is sometimes thought to have been conducted by the composer, but was actually conducted by Pedro de Freitas-Branco, under the supervision of Ravel, who was present at rehearsal and the recording session.

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.

At twenty years of age, Ravel was already " self-possessed, a little aloof, intellectually biased, given to mild banter.

After failing to meet the requirement of earning a competitive medal in three consecutive years, Ravel was expelled in 1895.

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.

Two years later, Ravel completed his Rapsodie espagnole, his first major " Spanish " piece, written first for piano four hands and then scored for orchestra.

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 ).

However, during the war years, Ravel did manage some compositions, including one of his most popular works, Le tombeau de Couperin, a commemoration of the musical ideals of François Couperin, the early 18th-century composer, which premiered in 1919.

When Edouard Ravel died in 1960, the Ravel estate fell subject to extensive litigation for ten years, reaching France's highest appellate court.

During these years, he worked with major composers, such as Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie and Ravel, and artists who designed sets and costumes, such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault, and Henri Matisse, creating new works that combined all the arts.

Its popularity waning in the late 18th century, the oboe d ' amore fell into disuse for about 100 years until composers such as Richard Strauss ( Symphonia Domestica, where the instrument represents the child ), Claude Debussy (" Gigues ", where the oboe d ' amore has a long solo passage ), Maurice Ravel, Frederick Delius, and others began using it once again in the early years of the twentieth century.

In his later years as principal, Mackenzie became markedly conservative, forbidding his students to play the chamber music of Ravel, which he stigmatised as " a pernicious influence ".

Among the composers who performed their own works at the hall in its first 20 years were Debussy, Elgar, Grieg, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Schoenberg, Richard Strauss and Sullivan.

In its last two years, Theatre X's board of directors gave then producing director David Ravel and artistic director John Schneider control over play selection and casting, which had previously involved the entire group, and then dissolved the acting company.

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

Ravel is perhaps known best for his orchestral work Boléro ( 1928 ), which he considered trivial and once described as " a piece for orchestra without music ".

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

The Italian maestro, taking liberties with Ravel ’ s strict instructions, conducted the piece at a faster tempo and with an “ accelerando at the finish ”.

Instead, Ravel abandoned the piece, using its nationalistic themes and rhythms in some of his other pieces.

In music, Myrrha was the subject of an 1876 band piece by John Phillip Sousa, Myrrha Gavotte and in 1901, Maurice Ravel and Andre Caplet each wrote cantatas titled Myrrha.

His passionate music and unusual harmonies proved to have a lasting influence on the younger French composers Debussy and Ravel ( in homage, the latter composed in 1913 a piano piece entitled " À la manière de Borodine ").

The Nameless One finds a portal to Ravel's maze, but realizes that it requires a piece of Ravel to activate it ; for this, he locates Ravel's daughter and takes drops of her blood.

In France, Impressionistic composers Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel both wrote mazurkas ; Debussy's is a stand-alone piece, and Ravel's is part of a suite of an early work, La Parade.

* Ondine, a movement of the piano piece Gaspard de la nuit by Maurice Ravel ( 1906 )

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

When told about this, Ravel smiled and remarked that the woman had been the only one who had understood the piece.

Arrangements of the piece were made for piano solo and piano duet ( two people playing at one piano ), and Ravel himself arranged a version for two pianos, published in 1930.

Despite some dismissal that the work is merely a showpiece, Islamey has had a lasting impact on piano solo music ; Ravel once remarked to a friend that his goal in writing Gaspard de la nuit was to compose a piece that was " more difficult than Balakirev's Islamey.

The piece is famous for its difficulty, partly because Ravel intended the Scarbo movement to be more difficult than Balakirev's Islamey.

The film popularized the classical music piece Boléro by Ravel, which is identified as an ideal piece of background music when making love.

As a preparatory exercise, Ravel had transcribed a forlane ( an Italian folk dance ) from the fourth suite of Couperin's Concerts royaux, and this piece invokes Ravel's forlane structurally.

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.

Jeux d ’ eau () is a piece for solo piano by Maurice Ravel.

At the time of writing Jeux d ' eau, Ravel was a student of Gabriel Fauré, to whom the piece is dedicated.