Was a slow, painstaking composer. In 40 years Ravel produced some 60 works, and nearly 20 of these were orchestrations of his own piano music and works by others. The latter includes his famous transcription of Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an ...
(When asked by George Gershwin to take him on as a pupil) "If I do, you will become second-class Ravel. Better that you remain first-class Gershwin."
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Joseph-Maurice Ravel
Ciboure, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
(age 62)
Paris, France