Maurice Ravel is one of the greatest French composers who ever lived. Along with Claude Debussy, he single-handedly changed the direction of French music in the early 20th century, leading to the ...

Ravel himself offered a helpful insight into ... regrets the long-standing tendency to see the two composers as "twin brothers" of Impressionism, and suggests that it is more productive to view ...

A prelude and dance by the French master recently surfaced in a Paris library. Gustavo Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic ...

But in Ravel’s solo works, which across decades of composition contain both the evocative broad strokes of impressionism and the luminous specificity of pointillism, his approach can have mixed ...

Some impressionist music is based on whole tone scales and pentatonic scales, especially the music of Debussy. Debussy, Ravel and other composers also rediscovered modes. The rhythm and tempo of ...

Waiting until the hall was pin-drop silent, German guest conductor for the March 6 concert, Matthias Pintscher, quietly ...