Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a French composer of Impressionist 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 has entered the standard concert repertoire.
Ravel's piano compositions, such as Jeux d'eau, Miroirs and Gaspard de la Nuit, demand considerable virtuosity from the performer, and his orchestral music, including Daphnis et Chloé and his arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, uses tonal color and variety of sound and instrumentation very effectively.
Ravel is perhaps best known for his orchestral work, Boléro, which he considered trivial and once described as 'a piece for orchestra without music.'
According to SACEM, Ravel's estate earns more royalties than that of any other French musician. According to international copyright law, Ravel's works are public domain since January 1, 2008 in most countries. In France, due to anomalous copyright law extensions to account for the two world wars, they will not enter the public domain until 2015. (Hide extended text) ... (Read all)
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Interest : Un vrai bonheur d'avoir
découvert ce site. Je débute
mais il y a quelques morceaux
qui semblent à ma portée (sans
mauvais jeu de mots !). A
bientôt.
Comment posted the 2012-01-07, by Quartocrépite (visitor)
Interest : Skill level : Une écriture de rêve pour
cette pièce si extraordinaire
pour les danseurs, aux
évocations fluides, qui peut
être interprétée plus
lentement, le tempo étant
extrêmement vif.
Comment posted the 2012-01-04 by aliza-clarinette (Free-scores.com member)
Interest : Skill level : An excellent opportunity to
obtain details of a piece of
music particularly to see if
it suits one's style as in my
case, I am only a beginner and
not too sure whether it may be
too complex for me at this
time.
Very impressed.
Comment posted the 2011-09-20, by Alberty (visitor)
Interest : Skill level : thanks for this service, have
just downloaded this piece to
play for a wedding later
today, very impressed, I will
be playing it on a concert
harp so all I need to do is
mark in the pedal changes
Comment posted the 2011-05-13, by musiquem (visitor)
Interest : Skill level : Imperialex: The title is
regularly translated into
English with the word "dead"
in it. Perhaps "deceased"
might be more appropriate, but
despite this issue, Ravel
stated that he composed the
piece after dreaming of the
funeral of a dead princess.
Comment posted the 2011-04-08, by guitaristedu29 (visitor)
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Ravel, Maurice : Little Ugly Girl, Empress of the Pagodas (Ma mère l'oye (Mother Goose))
Ravel, Maurice : Little Ugly Girl, Empress of the Pagodas (Ma mère l'oye (Mother Goose))
Ravel, Maurice : Little Ugly Girl, Empress of the Pagodas (Ma mère l'oye (Mother Goose))
Ravel, Maurice : Little Ugly Girl, Empress of the Pagodas (Ma mère l'oye (Mother Goose))
Ravel, Maurice : Conversation of Beauty and the Beast (Ma mère l'oye (Mother Goose))
Ravel, Maurice : Conversation of Beauty and the Beast (Ma mère l'oye (Mother Goose))
Ravel, Maurice : Conversation of Beauty and the Beast (Ma mère l'oye (Mother Goose))
Ravel, Maurice : Conversation of Beauty and the Beast (Ma mère l'oye (Mother Goose))
Ravel, Maurice : The Fairy Garden (Ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose))
Ravel, Maurice : Little Tom Thumb / Hop o' My Thumb (Ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose))
Ravel, Maurice : Menuet sous le nom de Haydn (The Minuet on the name of Haydn)
Ravel, Maurice : MENUET IN C-SHARP MINOR (posthumous work)
Ravel, Maurice : Prelude
Ravel, Maurice : A la manière de … Emmanuel Chabrier (Paraphrase sur un air de Gounod)
Ravel, Maurice : Berceuse (Lulluby) for Violin & piano (sous le nom de Gabriel Fauré)
Ravel, Maurice : A la manière de … Alexander Borodine (Valse)
Ravel, Maurice : Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré
Ravel, Maurice : Piano concerto in G (Adagio assai (Introduction piano))
Ravel, Maurice : Piano concerto in G (Adagio assai (Introduction piano))
Ravel, Maurice : Piano Concerto in G (Adagio assai (Introduction piano))
