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Maurice Ravel — Composer, pianist and conductor, 1875–1937
Born in the Basque country to a music-loving family, he entered the Paris Conservatoire, whose conservative establishment held him in low esteem — he failed five times at the Prix de Rome, and the scandal of 1905 forced the director’s resignation. The 1920s and 1930s held him France’s greatest living composer; he died after an illness that had taken his writing from him. (Editorial synthesis)
Maurice Ravel was born on 7 March 1875. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Maurice Ravel was born in Ciboure. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Maurice Ravel died on 28 December 1937. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Maurice Ravel died in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Recorded work of Maurice Ravel: the Boléro. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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