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Ravel

2011-05-31 Fiction
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Release : 2011-05-31
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Book Synopsis Ravel by : Jean Echenoz

Download or read book Ravel written by Jean Echenoz. This book was released on 2011-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ravel is a beguiling and original evocation of the last ten years in the life of the musical genius Ravel, written by novelist Jean Echenoz. The book opens in 1928 as Maurice Ravel—dandy, eccentric, curmudgeon—crosses the Atlantic abroad the luxury liner the SS France to begin his triumphant grand tour of the United States. A “master magician of the French novel” (The Washington Post), Echenoz captures the folly of the era as well as its genius, including Ravel’s personal life—sartorially and socially splendid—as well as his most successful compositions from 1927 to 1937. Illuminated by flashes of Echenoz’s characteristically sly humor, Ravel is a delightfully quirky portrait of a famous musician coping with the ups and downs of his illustrious career. It is also a beautifully written novel that’s a deeply touching farewell to a dignified and lonely man going reluctantly into the night.

Ravel

1991-01-01 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 1991-01-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 336/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Ravel by : Arbie Orenstein

Download or read book Ravel written by Arbie Orenstein. This book was released on 1991-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

2000 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2000
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Maurice Ravel by : Benjamin Ivry

Download or read book Maurice Ravel written by Benjamin Ivry. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Ravel

2011-01-01 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2011-01-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Ravel by : Roger Nichols

Download or read book Ravel written by Roger Nichols. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Cambridge Companion to Ravel

2000-08-24 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2000-08-24
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 561/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Ravel by : Deborah Mawer

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Ravel written by Deborah Mawer. This book was released on 2000-08-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introduction to the life, music and compositional aesthetic of Maurice Ravel.

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