Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
Joseph Maurice Ravelwas 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth7 March 1875
CityCiboure, France
CountryFrance
effect french influence majority modern notable
Another significant influence, other than Chabrier - is from Satie, who had a notable effect on Debussy, on myself, and, to tell the truth, on the majority of modern French composers.
beautiful leave
It is beautiful; it is beautiful after all; I have said nothing; I leave nothing. I have not said what I wanted to say. I have so much more to say.
princess remember
Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!
ravel firsts rate
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?
cells ravens mathematical-equations
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.
littles worst composer
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.
men thinking symbolism
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.
people doe might
Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?
war musical shells
If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.
Tell me that not everything I wrote was bad.
writing quality ravel
To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.
asks
I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.
ravel might firsts
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
art real emotion
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art