Maurice Ravel
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was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist and Expressionist music, known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects. Much of his piano music, chamber music, vocal music and orchestral music have become staples of the concert repertoire.
 

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    Name Maurice Ravel
    (Joseph-Maurice Ravel)
    Height 5'  (152 cm)
    Build Average
    Date of Birth March 7, 1875
    Star Sign Pisces
    Died December 28, 1937 (Aged 62)
    Nationality French
    Occupation Composer
    Celebrity Index Ma
    Claim to Fame Le boléro

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  • The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
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  • My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
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  • I begin by considering an effect.
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  • Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!
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  • I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.
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  • You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
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  • Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
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  • We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
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  • For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I`m different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.
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  • I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.
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