Pierre-Alfred Ravel (6 January 1811 – 26 April 1881) was a French actor of the 19th century, best known for his appearance in comedies. He was a leading...

Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte was also premiered. Pierre Lalo, the music critic of Le Temps (who later became persistently hostile to Ravel)...

Ravel was born in the Basque town of Ciboure, France, near Biarritz, 18 kilometres (11 mi) from the Spanish border. His father, Pierre-Joseph Ravel,...

Shéhérazade is the title of two works by the French composer Maurice Ravel. Both have their origins in the composer's fascination with Scheherazade, the...

day (Frédérick Lemaître, François Jules Edmond Got, Hugues Bouffé, Pierre-Alfred Ravel) and probably played minor roles with French troupes. In 1846, after...

terser style. Among those influenced by him during his lifetime were Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Francis Poulenc, and he is seen as an influence on...

conservatism and wit; among his principal targets was the composer Maurice Ravel, whose music Lalo disparaged throughout his career. In addition to his journalistic...

more familiar to London audiences in the original French version, which Ravel and his company played at the St James's Theatre in 1867, and again in 1871...

September 1907 at a Henry Wood Promenade concert, with Alfred Kastner as harp soloist. Ravel later conducted the work in Britain, first at the Bechstein...

quartets by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel (Deutsche Grammophon). In 1959, he founded the "Orchestres de jeunes Alfred Loewenguth" (OJAL), and created the...

"About the Music", in Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin (Van Nuys: Alfred Publishing, 2003), p. 9. Nancy Bricard, "About the Music", in Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin...

1952 Verdi, 1958 Ravel, 1970 Mozart, 1991 "Pierre Petit", in Sax, Mule & Co, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, H & D, Paris, 2004, s. 160-161 Pierre Petit in the Encyclopédie...

philharmonique de Strasbourg) - Ravel, Les deux concertos pour piano (ERATO) 1977: Mendelssohn: Anne Queffélec, Pierre Amoyal, Frédéric Lodéon – Les Deux...

rigorous classical study would ruin his jazz-influenced style; Maurice Ravel voiced similar objections when Gershwin inquired about studying with him...

Prez (c. 1450 – 1521) Pierre Pincemaille (1956–2018) Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) Jean-Marie Raoul (1766–1837) Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) Jean-Henri...

continued welcoming artists, writers, and musicians in her home. Maurice Ravel dedicated Le Cygne (The Swan) in "Histoires naturelles" and La Valse (The...

age 14, studying with Alfred Cortot and Marguerite Long and was awarded the "Premier Prix" at age 16. She then studied Maurice Ravel and Spanish composers...

Alain (1911–1940) Alfred Desenclos (1912–1971) Jean Françaix (1912–1997) Maurice Ohana (1913–1992) Henri Dutilleux (1916–2013) Pierre Boulez (1925–2016)...

including Chabrier, Debussy, Gounod and Ravel. He played the piano part in recordings of his Babar the Elephant with Pierre Fresnay and Noël Coward as narrators...

artistic masters including Marcel Proust, Colette, Giovanni Boldini, Maurice Ravel, Isadora Duncan, and Gabriel Fauré. A number of musical works were debuted...

WorldCat Maurice Ravel, sein Leben, sein Werk on WorldCat Die Musik in Frankreich im 20. Jahrhundert on WorldCat Von Richard Wagner bis Pierre Boulez on WorldCat...

Many by Alfred Adam, directed by Pierre Dux, Théâtre Gramont 1954 : À la Jamaïque, operetta by Francis Lopez and Raymond Vincy, directed by Alfred Pasquali...

Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (French: [al.fʁɛd də my.sɛ]; 11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with...

encounters. He worked with Pierre Akendengué, Areski Belkacem, Brigitte Fontaine, Nana Vasconcelos, Gérard Ansaloni, Jacques Higelin, Alfred Panou, Maurane, David...

Edgar Degas, Ernest Chausson, and Maurice Ravel attempted the Prix de Rome but did not gain recognition. Ravel tried a total of five times to win the prize...

public they were well reviewed by musicians including Paul Dukas, Alfred Bruneau and Pierre de Bréville. The complete set was given the following year. Like...

the New Theatre of Turin was the subject of a CD, with pieces by Chopin, Ravel and Debussy. In addition, several reference CDs were produced in early 2010...

Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ lwi ʒozεf bulɛz]; 26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer,...

recorded numerous discs. Saxophone et Piano (Maurice Ravel, Pierre-Max Dubois, Paule Maurice, Alfred Desenclos, Roger Boutry, Lucie Robert-Diessel, Alain...

Rand playwright Orgy in the Lighthouse, The Trouble with Mr. Adams Edeet Ravel 1955 novelist A Wall of Light, Ten Thousand Lovers Angela Rawlings 1978...