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+ | ===== Gifted ===== | ||
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+ | Ravel conducted his first orchestral composition, | ||
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+ | ===== Pictures At An Exhibition ===== | ||
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+ | Ravel rose to prominence as a great orchestrator, | ||
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+ | ===== Daphnis et Chloé ===== | ||
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+ | In 1909, Ravel began work on his ballet Daphnis et Chloé, a commission from Diaghilev for the legendary dancer Nijinsky. They can be seen here playing from the score together. It was a difficult project, and the response was lukewarm.[([[https:// | ||
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+ | ===== Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte ===== | ||
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+ | The Pavane pour une Infante Defunte was composed as a piano piece for Princesse Edmond de Polignac, whose father was Isaac Singer, the well-known sewing machine manufacturer. Despite the title, Ravel was quick to stress out that the piece is not a funeral lament, but rather 'an evocative of the pavane that may have been danced by such a tiny princess as painted by Velazquez' | ||
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+ | ===== Great War ===== | ||
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+ | Ravel served as a truck driver at the Verdun front during World War I. The conflict caused him so much anguish that a lot of key initiatives never materialized. He did, however, finish Le Tombeau de Couperin, dedicating each movement to a friend who died in the war.[([[https:// | ||
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+ | ===== Boléro ===== | ||
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+ | ===== Jazz Era ===== | ||
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+ | Ravel embarked on a profitable four-month, 25-city concert tour of the United States in 1928. He traveled to Harlem with Gershwin to hear jazz and later visited New Orleans. His love of jazz inspired him to incorporate jazz themes into a handful of his later compositions, |