Maurice ravel music styles

Maurice Ravel, a small and obsessively neat French composer, wrote some of the most intensely beautiful and perfectly-crafted "impressionist" music of the 20th century.

He actually didn't write that many pieces altogether, since he composed slowly and deliberately.

Maurice ravel music styles

But what he did produce is astonishingly high quality.

Some people even like to think that Ravel never wrote a bad piece - I like to agree with them!!

His fantastically colorful orchestral works are some of my favorites, and never fail to stir up nostalgia and awe whenever I hear them.

Contents...
Ravel's Meticulous Life
Rich Music
Famous Pieces

Ravel's Meticulous Life

Maurice Ravel was born in 1875, in a little French fishing village on the Mediterranean.

His mother was from the Basque country in Spain and his father was a Swiss inventor.

Little Maurice Ravel was a talented pianist. He gave his first recital at age fourteen, and later studied piano at the Pari