Maurice Ravel
Title | Maurice Ravel PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Ivry |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Maurice Ravel: A Life is the first convincing attempt to paint a portrait of the life and work of the hitherto enigmatic composer of Bolero, Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, and L'enfant Et Les Sortileges. Ivry offers here a convincing solution to the much-discussed "mystery" of Ravel's sexuality. More than simply "outing" Ravel as a gay man for the first time among numerous writers on this composer, this book discusses how his secretive sexuality impacted his work. Using unpublished documents, letters, articles and memoirs, many of which were previously unknown even to Arbie Orenstein, universally considered the world's leading scholar of Ravel studies, Ivry presents a more rounded view of Ravel, man and musician. Descriptions of musical works are in non-technical language, friendly to the reader with no specialized knowledge of classical music. Like Ivry's widely acclaimed biography of Poulenc, universally seen as the standard life of this composer in any language, his new Ravel is likely to become a classic of contemporary musical biography.
Maurice Ravel
Title | Maurice Ravel PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Zank |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 379 |
Release | 2013-05-24 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1135173516 |
Maurice Ravel: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer and theorist.
Ravel
Title | Ravel PDF eBook |
Author | Arbie Orenstein |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1991-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780486266336 |
The standard Ravel biography by the world's foremost authority — brilliantly detailed and documented, filled with quotations from letters, interviews with the composer's friends, an illuminating analysis of each of his works, a study of his musical esthetics and language, a complete catalog of his works, and a discography. "Highly recommended" — Choice. Includes 48 illustrations.
Maurice Ravel
Title | Maurice Ravel PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Larner |
Publisher | Phaidon |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1996-09-25 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Much of the music of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) is among the most accessible of any written in the last hundred years; the man, however, was notoriously difficult to get to know. In Maurice Ravel, Gerald Larner aims to trace the development of the composer's personality not only through events in his life and in the society around him but also through his music, which is more revealing in this respect than is generally believed. This beautifully crafted book offers many fresh insights into the life and work of this enigmatic composer.
Ravel
Title | Ravel PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Nichols |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 449 |
Release | 2011-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0300108826 |
This new biography of Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), by one of the leading scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French music, is based on a wealth of written and oral evidence, some newly translated and some derived from interviews with the composer’s friends and associates. As well as describing the circumstances in which Ravel composed, the book explores new evidence to present radical views of the composer’s background and upbringing, his notorious failure in the Prix de Rome, his incisive and often combative character, his sexual preferences, and his long final illness. It also contains the most detailed account so far published of his hugely successful American tour of 1928. The world of Maurice Ravel—including friendships (and some fallings-out) with Debussy, Faur�, Diaghilev, Gershwin, and Toscanini—is deftly uncovered in this sensitive portrait.
Maurice Ravel
Title | Maurice Ravel PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Zank |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2013-05-24 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1135173443 |
This is the first guide to research on the great composer, Maurice Ravel. It includes over 2000 annotated entries of the scholarly literature on Ravel, including catalogues, facsimilies of autographs, music editions, textual criticism, bibliographies, monographs, articles, and dissertations covering his life and music.
A Ravel Reader
Title | A Ravel Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Maurice Ravel |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 706 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0486430782 |
This outstanding compilation of articles by Ravel (who was a brilliant critic) features reviews, interviews, and some 350 letters from Cocteau, Colette, de Falla, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, and other major figures of the time.