Bolero - The Life of Maurice Ravel (Hardcover)

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• Publisher: Goss Press
• Number of Pages: 344
• ISBN: 1443728586
• WAPI (Tower ID): 113049455
• Release Date: November 30, 2008
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BOLERO THE LIFE OF MAURICE RAVEL by MADELEINE GOSS. Contents include: CHAPTER PAGE I. Bolero 1 II. Childhood on the Basque Coast . . 14 III. The Paris Conservatory in Ravel's Time 26 IV. He Begins to Compose .... 37 V. Gabriel Faure and His Influence on Ravel 48 VI. Failure and Success .... 62 VII. Les Apaches 74 VIII. The Music of Debussy and Ravel . . 87 IX. The Stories from Nature ... 100 X. The Lure of Spain 114 XL Ma Mere VOye 128 XII. Daphnis and Chloe 142 XIII. The Great Year of Ballets ... 156 XIV. Ravel Fights for France .... 170 XV. The Child and the Sorceries . . 185 XVI. Ravel's Home at Montfort-l'Amaury . 203' XVII. Concerts in America .... 216 XVIII. Last Compositions . 233 vii CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE XIX. Simple, sans remords, . . . 248 XX. Finale 258 Acknowledgments 263 List of Ravel's Compositions . . . 265 Recordings of Ravel's Works . . 275 Bibliography 283 Source Notes 285 General Index 293 Index of Ravel's Compositions . . 301 Vlll ILLUSTRATIONS Maurice Ravel frontispiece Ravel directing Bolero 1 Ravel's baptismal certificate .... 18 Marie Eluarte Ravel 20 Joseph Ravel 20 Ravel's birthplace 20 Maurice Ravel and his brother, Edouard . . 21 Ricardo Vines 52 Gabriel Faure 53 A group of Prix de Rome contestants ... 64 Ravel with his famous beard .... 65 Vines and Ravel 78 A letter from Ravel to Vines .... 79 The gateway to Le Belvedere .... 104 One of Ravel's scores 105 Le Belvedere from the garden .... 120 Teatime on the balcony 121 Rooftops Montfort-PAmaury .... 134 ix ILLUSTRATIONS RavePs writing-table 135 Zizi, Ravel's mechanical bird . 135 Ravel lifts his mask 158 Edouard Ravel 168 The piano in Ravel's study 169 The bedroom at Le Belvedere .... 169 Ravel as a soldierduring the World War . . 174 Ravel's study in the home of M. and Mme Bonnet 174 The bedroom and bar, designed by Leon Leyritz 175 A corner of Ravel's modern bedroom . . .175 Mme Reveleau, Ravel's faithful bonne . . . 206 The villa at Montfort-l'Amaury .... 207 Ravel with his Siamese kitten, Mouni . . 212 At Biarritz with Mme Jourdan-Morhange and M. Vines 212 A later portrait of Ravel 240 At St Jean-de-Luz with Mme Marguerite Long . 240 Back to France from the United States . . . 241 Going over a score with Jacques Fevrier . . 254 Death-sketch by Luc-Albert Moreau . . . 254 Ravel's tomb in Levallois-Perret .... 255.

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