Piano bleu maurice ravel biography

Born Maurice Joseph Ravel, March 7, 1875, in Ciboure, Basses-Pyrenees, France; (died December 28, 1937, in Paris, France); son of Pierre Joseph (an engineer) and Marie (Delouard) Ravel. Education: Studied at Paris Conservatoire, 1899-1905.

One of France's greatest musical geniuses, Maurice Ravel is best known as the composer of the riveting orchestral piece Bolro, perhaps the most universally recognized of all classical melodies.

Music scholars deem Ravel one of the century's best orchestrators for his ability to create a kaleidoscopic array of sounds within an orchestra, but he also wrote several superb, technically difficult works for the piano.

Maurice Joseph Ravel was born on March 7, 1875, in Ciboure, a town in the Pyrenees region of France near the border with Spain.

His mother, Marie Delouard, was of Basque heritage, and his father was an engineer of Swiss birth whose family was originally of French origins. From his father he inherited a sincere passion for the arts, w