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Maurice Ravel
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Definition:[1875 - 1937]a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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"I have the intention to dedicate Le Gibet to you. It is not because I think you merit a rope to hang yourself, but because it is the least difficult of the three pieces."
Maurice Ravel to pianist Jean Marnold about Le Gibet from Gaspard de la Nuit
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After tea, Oceola played. She played the Rachmaninoff Prelude in C Sharp Minor. The played from the Liszt Études. She played the St. Louis Blues. She played Ravel's Pavanne pour une Enfante Défunte. And then she had to go.
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"I was listening to a beautiful thing by Ravel when it happened. [...]"
Trudy Baker and Rachel Jones. Coffee Tea or Me (1967)
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They were playing the Kreutzer Sonata but he, having read the programme wrong, believed it was a piece by Ravel which he had been told was as beautiful as Palestrina but difficult to understand.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 7]
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