Composer Maurice Ravel

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Maurice Ravel

Living place: France

Birthday: 7-3-1875

Global rank: #28135

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Who is Composer Maurice Ravel?
One of the pioneers of Impressionist music who is best known for 1928 worked for the "Bolero" orchestra. He turned down the Legion d'honneur when the French government offered it to him in 1920.
He hated "Bolero", his most famous work, and considered it "an orchestral piece without it. music" and mediocrity in the extreme. His music - especially "Jeux d'eau" - is virtuosic --demanded in skill from those seeking to master it.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He was trained by the famous Émile Descombes while attending the Paris Conservatory.

Family life info

He was born to Marie Delouart, of Basque descent, and Joseph Ravel, who was a Swiss inventor and industrialist.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Composer Maurice Ravel?
He met American composer George Gershwin while visiting New York City.

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When was Composer Maurice Ravel born?
Maurice Ravel was born in 7-3-1875, death year is , at the age of 149.
Where is Composer Maurice Ravel's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Maurice Ravel was born in France. is a Composer, whose Zodiac is Pisces, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Pig. Maurice Ravel's global rank is 28135 and whose rank is 109 in list of famous Composer.
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Events in 1875 and 7-3

Birthday Maurice Ravel (7-3) in history

  • Day 7-3 year 1850: Daniel Webster gave a three-hour speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850.
  • Day 7-3 year 1876: Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone.
  • Day 7-3 year 1936: Adolf Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact when he ordered troops to march into the Rhineland.
  • Day 7-3 year 1945: During World War II, U.S. troops crossed the bridge at Remagen, the first incursion into Germany by Allied forces.
  • Day 7-3 year 1965: Peaceful civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma, Ala., are brutally attacked with billy clubs and tear gas by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The event is later called “Bloody Sunday.”
  • Day 7-3 year 2004: V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire was invested as the first openly gay Episcopal Church bishop.
  • Day 7-3 year 2005: John R. Bolton was nominated by President Bush to be U.S. ambassador to the UN.
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