Maurice Ravel’s Death – Cause and Date

The composer Maurice Ravel died at the age of 62. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

One of the pioneers of Impressionist music who was best known for his 1928 orchestral work “Boléro.” He refused the Legion d’honneur when the French government offered it to him in 1920.

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

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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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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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Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!

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The only love affair I have ever had was with music.