{"id":1804,"date":"2018-03-07T15:12:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T15:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2018-04-19T19:41:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T19:41:39","slug":"ripms-illustrations-of-the-weekhappy-birthday-maurice-ravel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/?p=1804","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Maurice Ravel!&nbsp;<br\/>RIPM&#8217;s &#8220;Illustrations of the Week&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1806 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/10-ravel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/10-ravel.jpg 452w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/10-ravel-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/10-ravel-172x230.jpg 172w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Musikalischer Kurier, <\/em>vol. 2 no. 44 (29 October 1920): [405].<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 2em;\">French composer, pianist, and conductor Maurice Ravel was born 143 years ago today, on 7 March 1875. The musical press published a number of interesting reviews throughout the early 20th century of his then recently premiered works. Today, we pay tribute to Ravel by sharing from our archives a few of these reviews.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1807 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/8-ravel-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/8-ravel-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/8-ravel-177x230.jpg 177w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/8-ravel.jpg 343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>The Baton, <\/em>vol. 7 no. 6 (April 1928): 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 2em;\">Ravel completed his famous <em>String Quartet in F Major<\/em> at the age of 28. The New York premiere of this work was reviewed in the journal, <em>The New Music Review and Church Music Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1808 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1-ravel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1-ravel.jpg 321w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1-ravel-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1-ravel-212x230.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1963 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2.1-ravel-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2.1-ravel-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2.1-ravel-241x230.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2.1-ravel.jpg 366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The New Music Review and Church Music Review, <\/em>vol. 6 no. 63 (February 1907): 173.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ehQMe57TPPM?rel=0&amp;start=18&amp;end=479\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1948 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/11-ravel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/11-ravel.jpg 467w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/11-ravel-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/11-ravel-163x230.jpg 163w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><br \/>\nA 1909 painting of Ravel by Achille Ouvr\u00e9<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Bulletin fran\u00e7ais de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Internationale de Musique (S.I.M), <\/em>vol. 6 no. 8 (Aug.-Sept. 1910): xxvi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 2em;\">In 1912, less than one year after the piece\u2019s premiere, Ravel\u2019s acerbic <em>Huit v<\/em><em>alses nobles et sentimentales<\/em> was reviewed evocatively in the <em>Bulletin fran\u00e7ais de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Internationale de Musique<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1953 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/15-Ravel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/15-Ravel.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/15-Ravel-650x98.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/15-Ravel-300x45.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/15-Ravel-540x81.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Monsieur Ravel will forgive us if we confess to him that his <em>Eight valses nobles et sentimentales<\/em> make us irresistibly think of some exotic fruits: we grit our teeth when we bite into it for the first time: we return by curiosity, then by pleasure, and finally we end up loving them more than all the others: we are still in the period of mistrust.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Bulletin fran\u00e7ais de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Internationale de Musique (S.I.M), <\/em>vol. 8 no. 2 (15 February 1912): 76.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WVYLjakSwnc?rel=0&amp;start=4&amp;end=107\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 2em;\">Unsurprisingly, as with this 1910 review of his <em>Rhapsodie Espagnole<\/em> below, Ravel\u2019s harmonic language and orchestration likened comparisons to the compositions of fellow Frenchman, Claude Debussy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1813 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-ravel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-ravel.jpg 308w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-ravel-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1814 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/6-ravel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/6-ravel.jpg 305w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/6-ravel-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/6-ravel-167x230.jpg 167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>The New Music Review and Church Music Review, <\/em>vol. 9 no. 98 (January 1910): 86-87.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gyTZIt1HlM0?rel=0&amp;start=1&amp;end=1093\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1958 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/16-ravel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/16-ravel.jpg 795w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/16-ravel-650x493.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/16-ravel-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/16-ravel-303x230.jpg 303w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Pro-Musica Quarterly<\/em>, vol. 2 no. 1 (December 1923): 4.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 2em;\">While some works by Ravel were received with mixed responses, others were hailed as immediate masterpieces. One such case was <em>Bol\u00e9ro.<\/em>\u00a0Soon after its 1928 premiere, the piece was reviewed in the American journal <em>Modern Music<\/em>\u00a0by Henry Pruni\u00e8res, a musicologist and founder of the French music journal,\u00a0<em>La Revue musicale.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1815 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/7-ravel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/7-ravel.jpg 581w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/7-ravel-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/7-ravel-540x155.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Modern Music, <\/em>vol. 6 no. 2 (January-February 1929): 37.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dZDiaRZy0Ak?rel=0&amp;start=13&amp;end=948\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1961 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/17-ravel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/17-ravel.jpg 518w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/17-ravel-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/17-ravel-199x230.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>The Baton,<\/em>\u00a0vol. 7 no. 6 (April 1928): 1.\u00a0<\/span><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Again, happy birthday, Maurice!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><u>RIPM search tip<\/u>: To access the over 8,000 records related to Maurice Ravel and his works, search \u201cRavel\u201d as a keyword in both the RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text and Preservation Series: European and North American Music Periodicals!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Click<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/ripm.org\/?page=cncsubscribe\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>to\u00a0subscribe to RIPM\u2019s\u00a0<em>Curios, News, and Chronicles!\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When is our next posting?\u00a0To find out, follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIPMCenter\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RIPMCenter\/\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">RIPM\u00a0is an international non-profit organization preserving and providing\u00a0access to\u00a0music periodicals published in more than twenty countries between approximately 1760 and 1966, from Bach to Bernstein. 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