A prelude and dance by the French master recently surfaced in a Paris library. Gustavo Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic ...

Maurice Ravel is one of the greatest French composers who ever lived ... leading to the impressionist movement – the musical equivalent of Claude Monet’s paintings. Today, he is best known for his ...

The cycle Miroirs was first announced by Ravel to his fellow "Apaches" who eventually became dedicatees of all five pieces. Written in 1904-05, the cycle was premiered in 1906 in Salle Erard by ...

Admitting the influence of Chabrier's Bourée fantasque , written two years earlier, Ravel would return to this spirit later in Scarbo (Gaspard de la nuit) . There is also a connection with ...