Ravel

Man and Musician

Ranked #15 in Ravel

"Ravel: Man and Musician is the first book to set the composer's entire oeuvre in its proper perspective … a staggeringly well documented opus … it cannot be matched for the invaluable particulars it provides." — Patrick J. Smith, Editor, High Fidelity/Musical America
The music of Maurice Ravel is performed more today than that of any other French composer. His musical achievements as well as his life and times are brilliantly recreated in this masterly biography, originally published during Ravel's centenary year of 1975. Written by Arbie Orenstein, widely considered the...
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