CHILL WITH RAVEL

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Chill With Ravel

Maurice Ravel was one of the most important French composers of the early 20th century. Bornin 1875 to a Swiss father and Basque mother, he inherited from his watchmaker father ameticulous attention to detail and from his mother an affinity with Spain and all things Spanish.

Aside from being the composer of some of the best known classical music - Bolero, Pavanepour une enfante defunte and Tzigane, for example - he is generally considered the finestorchestrator in musical history. Ravel combined his exceptional skill in orchestration with animpressive technical command of melody and harmony, writing in an appealing musical stylethat was entirely his own despite contemporary comparisons with Debussy, a composer thirteenyears his senior.