Ravel / Roger Nichols.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nichols, Roger, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937.

Ravel, Maurice.

Composers--France--Biography.

Composers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, [Connecticut] ; London, [England] : Yale University Press, 2011.

Summary:

This new biography of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), by one of the leading scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French music, is based on a wealth of written and oral evidence, some newly translated and some derived from interviews with the composer's friends and associates. As well as describing the circumstances in which Ravel composed, the book explores new evidence to present radical views of the composer's background and upbringing, his notorious failure in the Prix de Rome, his incisive and often combative character, his sexual preferences, and his long final illness. It also contains the most detailed account so far published of his hugely successful American tour of 1928. The world of Maurice Ravel - including friendships (and some fallings-out) with Debussy, Fauré, Diaghilev, Gershwin, and Toscanini - is deftly uncovered in this sensitive portrait.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of illustrations in the text

List of Plates

Preface / Roger Nichols

I. 1875-1902: A dandy blossoms

II. 1902-1905: Testing the Establishment

III. 1905-1908: Mirrors, birds and the supernatural

IV. 1908-1911: A bold operatic Concepcion

V. 1911-1914: Nobility and sentiment

VI. 1914-1920: Patriotism and loss

VII. 1920-1925: Waltzing towards a love regained

VIII. 1925-1928: Jazz, America and the joy of monotony

IX. 1928-1937: Two concertos and a long farewell

X. Postlude: The pirate and the clockmaker

Source abbreviations

Notes

Ravel chronology

Catalogue of works

Select bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780300170122

0300170122

OCLC:

1024024152