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Maurice Ravel

Together with Satie and Debussy, Ravel numbers among the innovators who had a falling out with academic education and created their own avant-garde tonal languages – inspired, in Ravel’s case, by Russian and Spanish music, but also by exoticism – without abandoning tonality. This master of orchestration begins with piano works, which he orchestrates; songs with piano and piano compositions exist on an equal footing in orchestral versions.

1875Born in Ciboure on March 7; the family moves to Paris that same year.
1882Lessons in piano, theory, and composition.
1889Beginning of his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris, from which he will never graduate.around 1893 Influence of Chabrier and Satie.
1901“Jeux d’eau” for piano, in a new “Impressionist” tonal language, as is “Miroirs” (1904–05).
1903“Shéhérazade” for voice and piano/orchestral accompaniment with orientalist tonal elements.
1905Scandal surrounding Ravel’s third application for the Prix de Rome.
1907Premiere of the “Histoires naturelles” after Jules Renard provokes astonishment in audiences and critics.
1907–08Rhapsodie espagnole for orchestra.
1908/10“Ma mère l’oye” (“Mother Goose”) for piano, four-hands, as a ballet in 1911.
1911Premiere in Paris of his opera “L’Heure espagnole.”
1911/12“Valses nobles et sentimentales” for piano/orchestra. Premiere of the ballet “Daphnis et Chloé” in 1912.
1914/19“Le tombeau de Couperin” for piano/orchestra anticipates the coming neoclassicism.
from 1920Many concert tours through Europe and the United States.
1925Premiere of his opera “L’Enfant et les sortilèges.”
1928Conferral of an honorary doctorate from Oxford University. “Bolero” for orchestra.
1929–31Piano Concerto in G major with elements of jazz.
1937Death in Paris on December 28.

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Peter Jost (Editor)

Dr. Peter Jost, born in 1960 in Diefflen/Saar, read musicology, German and comparative studies at Saarland University in Saarbrücken. He did his PhD in 1988 with a thesis on Robert Schumann’s Waldszenen.

From November 1991 to April 2009 he was a research associate at the Richard Wagner Complete Edition in Munich, and since May 2009 has been an editor at G. Henle Publishers. His Urtext editions comprise predominantly French music of the 19th and 20th centuries, including works by Lalo, Saint-Saëns and Ravel.

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