Maurice Ravel (20th-Century Composers)
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1996 |
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Gerald Larner |
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Phaidon Press Inc |
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0714832707 |
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Paperback - 240 pages (October 1996) Usually ships within 2-3 days.
Amazon Review
He is remembered in the United States primarily for the rather banal repetitions of
Bolero, but Maurice Ravel wrote a great deal of music more worthy of celebration: ballets like
Ma Mere l'Oye (Mother Goose) and
Daphnis et Chloe; orchestral and piano works like
Pavane pour une Infante Defunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess) and the
Rapsodie Espagnole; operas like
L'Enfant et les Sortileges (The Child and the Enchantments); and settings of Greek and Jewish songs. British author and critic Gerald Larner offers a well-researched, well-written, accessible biography of Ravel's life and compositions that explores his music and his motivations, a part of the Phaidon Press Limited 20th Century Composers series.