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Maurice Ravel [1875-1937] French

Rank: 103
Composer (with music)
Impressionist, Folk, Neoclassicism

Joseph Maurice Ravel 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.

Music, Art, Chance, Nature, Work

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We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.	Art, Work	101
For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.	Nature	102
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.	Music	103
Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!		104
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.	Music	105
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.		106
I begin by considering an effect.		107
I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.		108
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.	Chance	109
I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.		110

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