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His father encouraged him  In 1889, at 14, he entered the Paris Conservatoire, where he remained until 1905.

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Maurice ravel was born march 7 1875 France in a village near saint jean de luz. His father as Swiss and his mother was Basque.When Ravel turned 14 he began taking lessons at a music and dance school in the capital of France. Ravel continued taking classes until his early 20’s, during this time he composed a few songs such as “Pavane pour une infante défunte”“Jeux d'eau” , and a few more.Later on ravel composed even more well known songs including bolero andLe Tombeau de Couperin. Maurice ravel later on passed without a mistress besides music herself.

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Maurice ravel was born march 7 1875 France in a village near saint jean de luz. His father as Swiss and his mother was Basque.When Ravel turned 14 he began taking lessons at a music and dance school in the capital of France. Ravel continued taking classes until his early 20’s, during this time he composed a few songs such as “Pavane pour une infante défunte”“Jeux d'eau” , and a few more.Later on ravel composed even more well known songs including bolero andLe Tombeau de Couperin. Maurice ravel later on passed without a mistress besides music herself.

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Maurice Ravel was born on the 7th of March 1875 in Ciboure, France.

Ravel’s mother was Basque and his father was Swiss. When Ravel was 14 he started taking courses at the Paris conservatoire. The Paris Conservatoire was a music and dance school located in the capital of France. Some of Ravel's pieces of music are: Pavane pour une infante défunte, Jeux d'eau,  String Quartet, Mirrors.

Around 1928 Maurice Ravel started working on Bolero, a Spanish - flavored ballet score for his friend, a russian choreographer Ida Rubinstein. Ravel completed this piece of music in 5 months. Bolero was first performed at the Paris Opera on November 20, 1928.

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He continued performing his music's until he died in December 28 in 1937.But People still remember him for his great performances.

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Ravel’s life was in the main uneventful. He never married, and, though he enjoyed the society of a few chosen friends, he lived the life of a semirecluse at his country retreat at Montfort-L’Amaury, in the forest of Rambouillet, near Paris.

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He was well known for his musical performances and music like Boléro,one of his best music piece in the 18th century.Boléro was one of his 51 pieces of music.

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For a long time, Ravel planned the idea of building a composition from a single theme which would grow simply through harmonic and instrumental ingenuity. Bolero's famous theme came to him on holiday in Saint-Jean-de-Luz.

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Ravel was in no sense a revolutionary musician. He was for the most part content to work within the established formal and harmonic conventions of his day, still firmly rooted in tonality—i.e., the organization of music around focal tones.

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Ravel was born in a village near Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France, of a Swiss father and a Basque mother. His family background was an artistic and cultivated one, and the young Maurice received every encouragement from his father when his talent for music became apparent at an early age. In 1889.

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Maurice Ravel was born on March 7, 1875, in Cibourne, France. In 1889, at age 14, he started studying at the Paris Conservatoire. He studied there for 16 years. During this time he composed some of his best known peices of music.

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Ravel considered Boléro one of his least important works

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In total Ravel has composed 51 pieces of music and is best known for Bolero and Daphnis et Chloé.

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- He was born on March 7, 1875, in Ciboure, France

- He was born to a Basque mother and Swiss father

- His family background was an artistic

- In 1889, at 14, he entered the Paris Conservatoire, where he remained until 1905. During this period he composed some of his best known works

- He never got married

- He served in World War I for a short time as a truck driver at the front, but the strain was too much for his fragile constitution, and he was discharged from the army in 1917

- In 1928 Ravel embarked on a four months’ tour of Canada and the United States and in the same year visited England to receive an honorary degree of doctor of music from Oxford.

-The last five years of Ravel’s life were clouded by aphasia

-He died December 28, 1937, Paris

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In 1928 Ravel wrote bolero for his friend Nd bellet dancer Ida rubenstien. It was spanish inspired. Ravel came uo with the idea when he saw a man reapeating the same beat and then he said that he would do that and then slolwy grow the orchestra.

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Joeseph-Maurice Ravel was born on March

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His idea was to create an orchestral transcription of Albeniz's piano suite Ibera. Ravel played with the idea of building a composition from a single theme and then grow ito something big by just adding harmony and more instruments. He begannto work on it in July and it took five months for it to be ready for choreographing.

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He began music lessons when he was six. At 14, he gave his earliest public piano recital. ‘As a child, I was sensitive to music,’ said Ravel, ‘to every kind of music.’

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He is remembered for once stating, "The only love affair I have ever had was with music."

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Bolero was originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian actress and dancer Ida Rubinstein with "Fandango" as a working title.  It begins with a pianissimo and ends in fortissimo, and it was first introduced (Premiered) at the Paris Opera on November 22nd 1928

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Igor Stravinski (Dancer) once described Ravel as “The most perfect of a Swiss watchmaker,” which refers to the intricacy and the precision of Ravel’s works. Ever since he was a child, he displayed a strong interest in minute objects, miniatures, the tiny world of figurines and little things that worked by clockwork.

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today Maurice Ravel is still know as one of France's most popular composer.

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Joeseph-Maurice Ravel was born in March 7,1875 in Ciboure, France. And died in December 28, 1937 in Paris France. Ravel was a 19th century to early 20th century French composer. His best known works are Boléro and Daphnis et Chloé.  His talents in music came to him at an early age. At 14 he became part of the Paris Conservatoire where he stayed there until 1905. There is when he made some of his best known works. which were: "Pavane for a Dead Princess", the "Sonatine for piano", and the "String Quartet". At the Paris Conservatoire he failed three times to win the convented Prix de Rome for composition. Maurice Ravel never married. He served in World War l for a short amount of time as a truck driver near the front. He was discharged from the army in 1917. Ravel visited England to receive a honorary degree of doctor of music from Oxford in 1928. Boléro was invented in that same year. The last few years of Ravel's life were tragic by aphasia. This didn't only prevent him from writing music and notes, but also made him lose the power of speech and that made it impossible for him to even sign his name. They tried an operation on Ravel, they tried to relieve the obstruction of a blood vessel that supplies the brain, it was unsuccessful. Ravel was buried in the cemetery of Levallois. He had lived there before. He is remembered for saying once "The only affair I have ever made, was with music."

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Maurice Ravel was in born March 7, 1875, Ciboure, France he had died in December 28, 1937, Paris French.