Pianist Seong-Jin Cho has been touring Europe and the United States since January with a marathon evening of Maurice Ravel’s ...

Ravel described his work as “a simple and direct piece of writing without the slightest attempt at virtuosity”. The composer died unmarried and childless in 1937.

A French court on Friday ruled that composer Maurice Ravel wrote his famous "Bolero" piece by himself. The heirs of stage designer Alexandre Benois, who worked on the original performance of the ...

Most have heard the famous opening of Mussorgsky/Ravel’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” with its regal brass chorale used in films, TV, video games, and even as WWE entrance music.This year ...

I have long liked the French composer Maurice Ravel’s (1875-1937) piece “Pavane for a Dead Princess” because of its title. The word “princess” grants a noble and splendid atmosphere to the work. But ...

The Japanese garden, preserved in its original state, was designed by the composer himself. In 2011, the house was awarded ...

Maurice Ravel was a truck driver in the military transport service during World War I. He was surrounded by the horrors of war and yet paradoxically the music he wrote in response to that war ...

Ravel’s family moved to Paris when Maurice was three months old and his talent was encouraged. His music lessons began in 1882 when he was seven; in 1889 he entered the Paris Conservatoire, where ...

Whether Ravel was right in his pride or his doubt is something we can judge next week. Tomorrow, BBC Radio 3 is giving over an entire day to the music of Maurice Ravel.

Maurice Ravel had a habit of rearranging his music from piano to orchestra and back. In that spirit, here's a medley of three different arrangements of Ravel's "Mother Goose Suite." ...