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French composer (1875–1937)

"Ravel" redirects here. For other uses, see Ravel (disambiguation).

Joseph Maurice Ravel^{[n 1]} (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.

He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term.

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In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer.

Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Paris Conservatoire; he was not well regarded by its conservative establishment, whose biased treatment of him caused a scandal.

After leaving the conservatoire, Ravel found his own way as a composer, developing a style of great clarity and incorporating elements of modernism, baroque, neoclassicism and, in his later works, jazz. He liked to experiment with musical form, as in his best-known work, Boléro (1928), in which repetition takes the