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Sad Images Of Boy Biography

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I. 1895- left Conservatoire for a while after winning no piano prizes, first attempt at composition
1895-6 Menuet antique (solo piano) – tribute to Chabrier, dedicated to Ricardo Viñes who premiered it
      Habanera (the first of the Sites auriculaires, orch) – distinct tango/congo rhythm, Cuban dance
      Un grand sommeil noir (song for low voice) - “A long black sleep,” text by Paul Verlaine
      D'Anne jouant de l'espinette (song) – brisk, last phrase:“I become glorious/When I think that she loves me a little.”

II.1897- returned to the conservatoire, this time a composition student
1897 Entre cloches (the second of the Sites auriculaires, piano duet) - depicts bell pealing; first performance was a disaster: the two pianists were out of time with one another
1897 Violin Sonata No. 1/Sonate Posthume pour Violon et Piano (violin and piano)- 15 minutes long, discovered after Ravel's death, in 1975
1898 Schehérezade, ouverture de feerie (orch.) - first orchestral work
1899 Pavane pour une infante défunte (solo piano or orch.) – very fashionable in salons; To a dull performance: “I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, not a dead pavane for a princess.”- Ravel

III. 1900- officially dismissed from class (no prizes), but remained as an unofficial “auditor”
*1900 Les Bayadères (sop, chor, orch)-“ The Temple Dancer,” chorus for 1st Prix de Rome
**1901 Tout est Lumiere (sop, chor, orch) – chorus for 2nd PdR, beautiful, overlapping phrases in choir 
      Myrrha (sop, ten, bari, orch) – cantata for 2nd PdR, Myrrha: tree-mother of Adonis
1901 Jeux d'eau (piano) – note on score:“Dieu fluvial riant de l'eau qui le chatouille” - River god laughing as the water tickles him
1902 String Quartet/Quatuor à cordes – one of my favorite pieces, for good reason
***1902 La nuit (sop, chor, orch) – chorus for 3rd PdR, depicts the healing calm of night 
      Alcyone (3 voices, orch) – cantata for 3rd PdR, based on wife of the morning star
****1903 Matinee de Provence (sop, chor, orch) – chorus for 4th PdR, restrains himself for the judges
      Alyssa (sop, ten, bari, orch) – cantata for 4th PdR
1903 Shéhérazade (sop/ten solo and str. Orch.) - song cycle on 3 poems of Tristan Klingsor
1904-5 Miroirs (solo piano) – dedicated to certain members of Les Apaches
1905 Introduction et Allegro (Harp, Flute, Clarinet, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello) – lovely
*****1905 L' aurore (sop, chor, orch) – varied character, key and pace; at last, Ravel wrote with conviction in the chorus for the 5th PdR (disqualified: parallel 5ths, final chord contained major 7th)

IV. After 1905 competition for the Prix de Rome, Ravel Affair
1908 Gaspard de la nuit (piano) –3 suites about water-nymph, hanged man, malevolent gnome
1908-10 Ma mère l'oye (piano duet) – “Mother Goose,” written for Mimi (6) and Jean (7) Godebski
1910 Daphnis et Chloé (ballet) – love story of goatherd Daphnis and shepherdess Chloé, longest work
1911 L'Heure espagnole (1st comic opera) - “The Spanish Hour,” written for his dying father
1911-12 Valses nobles et sentimentales(piano or orch)–performed as Adélaïde ou Le langage des fleurs (later, Ravel would name the war-ambulance he drove Adélaïde)
1913 Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé (voice & ensemble)- inspired by Stravinsky showing him Three Japanese Lyrics (influenced by instrumentation of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire)
1914 Piano Trio (piano, violin, cello)- finished in 5 weeks before Ravel volunteered for war

V. After WW1 and 3-year depression following the death of his mother
1914-17 Le tombeau de Couperin (piano)- 6 mvmts dedicated to 7 friends who died during the war
1914-15 Trois chansons (chorus, or voice, piano) – in the manner of a French Renaissance chanson
1918 Frontispice (5 hands, piano) – captures confused emotional/creative state after war with lack of definite tonality 
1919-20 La Valse (piano,orch)– symphonic poem, post-war, “captured savage flavor of the end of an era”

VI. Later Years
1920-25 L'Enfant et les sortilèges (2nd opera) – “The Child and the Spells,” story of a rude child punished by objects/plants/animals he's hurt, then being forgiven after he bandages a squirrel.
1920-22 Sonata for Violin and Cello – duet in memory of Debussy
1922 Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré (violin, piano) - theme formed by adapting letters of Fauré's name to form GABDBEE FAGDE
1922-24 Tzigane (violin, piano or Luthéal) – barely finished in time for the performance; the performer, Hungarian virtuoso Jelly d'Aranyi, only had a few days to master it
1923-27 Violin Sonata No. 2/Sonate pour violon et piano - 2nd mvmt, “Blues,” reflects his interest in growing jazz in Paris cafés and nightclubs in the 1920s.
1928 Boléro (originally ballet, now for orch.) - best known,“an orchestral fabric without music”- Ravel
1929-30 Piano Concerto for the Left Hand – commissioned by the one-armed Paul Wittgenstein

1932-33 Don Quichotte à Dulcinée (3-song cycle for film) – The film starred famous operatic bass Feodor Shalyapin. Ravel disliked him, wrote the songs for baritone, and ignored the deadline.

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