Ravel was born in a village near Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France, of a Swiss father and a Basque mother.His family background was an artistic and cultivated one, and the young Maurice received every encouragement from his father when his talent for music became apparent at an early age. Ravel Maurice 1875-1937. Maurice Ravel se tient à l’écart de la révolution portée par Arnold Schoenberg et de l’académisme de la Schola Cantorum.
Son père, Joseph Ravel (1832-1908) est ingénieur. Cet article répertorie les compositions de Maurice Ravel (1875-1937).
In 1889, at 14, he entered the Paris Conservatoire, where he remained until 1905. 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. Maurice Ravel, de son nom de baptême Joseph Maurice Ravel, est un compositeur français de l’époque moderne, né à Ciboure le 7 mars 1875 et mort à Paris le 28 décembre 1937. Son audace ainsi que son admiration pour Erik Satie, lui vaut une forte réprobation de ces milieux qui lui coûte notamment des échecs successifs au Concours de Rome..
Joseph Maurice Ravel (French: [ʒɔzɛf mɔʁis ʁavɛl]; 7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. Né à Ciboure, le 7 mars 1875, mort à Paris, le 28 décembre 1937.