Ravel was very fond of his mother, and her Basque heritage was a strong influence on his life and music. Ravel substantiated his father's early influence by stating later, “As a child, I was sensitive to music- to every kind of music.” Joseph delighted in taking his sons to factories to see the latest mechanical devices, and he also had a keen interest in music and culture.
Some of Joseph's inventions were quite important, including an early internal-combustion engine and a notorious circus machine, the "Whirlwind of Death," an automotive loop-the-loop that was quite a success until a fatal accident at the Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1903. Both were Catholics and they provided a happy and stimulating household for their children. His mother, Marie Delouart, was of Basque descent and grew up in Madrid, Spain, while his father, Joseph Ravel, was a Swiss inventor and industrialist from French Haute-Savoie. Ravel was born in the Basque town of Ciboure, France, near Biarritz, close to the border with Spain, during 1875. In France, due to anomalous copyright law extensions to account for the two world wars, they will not enter the public domain until 2015. According to international copyright law, Ravel's works are public domain since Januin most countries. Ravel is perhaps known best for his orchestral work Boléro (1928), which he considered trivial and once described as "a piece for orchestra without music." Īccording to SACEM, Ravel's estate earns more royalties than that of any other French composer. Ravel's piano compositions, such as Jeux d'eau, Miroirs, Le tombeau de Couperin and Gaspard de la nuit, demand considerable virtuosity from the performer, and his orchestral music, including Daphnis et Chloé and his arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, uses a variety of sound and instrumentation. Much of his piano music, chamber music, vocal music and orchestral music has entered the standard concert repertoire.
Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a French composer of Impressionist music known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects.
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