Ravels biography is brief

His discoveries in the field of harmony, rhythm, Lada and orchestrations led to new stylistic trends in music. It is considered one of the 20th century music reformers. Maurice Joseph Ravel Fr. Joseph Maurice Ravel was born on March 7 of the year in the city of Siber in the south of France. The boy’s musical abilities were found very early, and at the age of 7 he began to engage in piano and harmony.

In the year, Ravel entered the Paris Conservatory. Already in his student years, Maurice created talented works. He perceived a lot from the music by E. Shabrie, E. Sati, K. Debussy, as well as Russian composers-A. Borodin, N. Rimsky-Korsakov, M. Fame of Ravel brought the work “Pavan to the death of the infanta”, and two years later he created the piano cycle “The Game of Water”, which played a revolutionary role in the development of the French piano school.

The unsurpassed master of the orchestra, Rael created wonderful samples in various genres. The composer was attracted by ancient and modern dance, jazz rhythms, and especially Spanish music. Such masterpieces were the Spanish Rhapsody, the opera "Spanish hour", "noble and sentimental waltzes", "child and magic" and others. Ravel is the author of the orchestra transformation of the “pictures from the exhibition” of Mussorgsky.

Ravel’s music combines subtle colorism with the melodies of lines, an exquisite sound with a rhythmic certainty, strict forms. He simplified the manner of the presentation of musical thought, but remained faithful to the classical ideals - the clarity of style, a sense of proportion and beauty. During the First World War, Ravel volunteered for the front, where he did not stop composing.

The result was deeply dramatic works, one of which is a piano concert for the left hand, written at the request of P. Wittgenstein, who lost his right hand at the front; He devoted to the dead friends the piano suite "Cooper Cooper." In the 10ths, Ravel meets the Russian director Sergei Diaghilev, who put the Russian Seasons in Paris. Especially for his order, the ballet to the music of Ravel "Daphnis and Chloe" with V.

Nizhinsky in the main party is put. Then Ravel tours a lot in the countries of Europe and America - gives concerts as a pianist and conductor, performing mainly his works. Everywhere he was met by an enthusiastic reception of grateful admirers. All this occurs during the work of Maurice on the most famous work of Bolero. In it, the composer tried to combine classical traditions with the rhythms of Spanish music.

The idea and order of this work belongs to the famous ballerina ide in Rubinstein. The popularity of this composition has no boundaries. His triumphal procession for the world concert east began immediately after the theater premiere. It entered the repertoire of the vast majority of orchestras and conductors of the world. The famous Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova included Bolero in her repertoire.

In the last years of his life, due to a severe progressive brain disease, Ravel stopped creative activity. The last work of the composer is “Three Songs” written for F. Maurice Rael died on December 28 in Paris, where he was buried in the cemetery of the suburbs of the Levallo-Perre. In Lyon, the concert hall “Auditorium M. Persona Day March 17 was opened in Lyon: - Nikolai Zhukovsky Russian scientist in the field of mechanics, the founder of aerodynamics as a science.