*To search the press’ groups, associations, business, sponsor for the site News-art-culture.com*. The human sensibility is near of music.  we can’t understand a composition without to be romantics, in elegance by sounds and into sensibility by re, mi, fa….in sentiments which to birth with  the music. Ravel is one of composers  which search the expression , an intense compositional  study of varies musicals styles, without to be never satisfied of the music . Joseph Maurice Ravel is birth to Ciboure in 7 March 1875 and die to Paris in 28 December 1937, is been a compositor , pianist and director of French orchestra. He comes known for more famous composition Boléro nominated by him” a composition of orchestra without music”, associating  in 1922 year a composition of Painting at an exposition by Modest Mussorgsky. His orchestrations are appreciated for use of varies sonority and complexity of instrumentations. Ravel enters in a multitude of styles? The harmony, musical colors? He is birth in a family of intellectuals with aristocratic origins , the father Joseph Ravel of Spanish origins , is been a civil engineer, inventor and producer of Swiss ascendance , instead the mother Marie Delouart Ravel of Spanish origins comes of a old Spanish family Delouart. From seven years start the studying for pianoforte to Conservatory of Paris where he meets the teenagers  composers , innovates named “ Les Apaches” for the unregulated life.

RAVEL AND THE MUSIC

The study from music is been with the master Gabriel Fauré for forty years trying varies times to win the prestigious prix “Prix of Rome”, unlucky in his repeated artistic tests he abandons again the conservatory , a  total disillusion comes with the resignations of post from orchestra’s director. His music comes influenced of varies musicals styles : jazz, Asiatic music, the folklorists sings traditional by Europe; not love the religion, the themes not have a religious character, instead he studies the classic mythology for inspire him. Between his students to can remember Maurice Delage, Ralph Vaugham Williams , meeting with George Gershwin for his desire to studying at his side , the master says with irony “ What you want to be a Ravel of second level when can to be a Gershwin by first level “.

The influences in music? 

The music is a continue jazz, with accents of blues. It’s a romantic , influenced by Debussy from Russian, Spanish music passing from jazz of United States to blues movement ( sonata for violin, pianoforte, concert for pianoforte of left hand dedicated at Paul Wittgenstein mutilated in war). With André Sedalge the professor of counterpoint  is been fundamental for the development from his quality compositional. He studies with meticulousness the expressive possibility of singles instruments for determine the effects , is a characteristic strong which permeated the success from orchestral music and pianoforte’s compositions. For his musical coloristic and for the typic character from compositions more evident, he comes considerate an impressionist. He himself affirmed:” the major fear of American  composers is that to find in themselves  the strange impulses at detachment from academic rules, to this point The musicians of good bourgeois composing the them music second the classic rules from European tradition”. In private life is socialist, reader of paper “ Le Populaire” , the friend of Leon Blum , President from French Council in 1936-1938 years. In time he starts the signals of a mysterious  progressive dementia that removed the capacity of speech , writing and play. It’s reflective to a series of hypothesis on Alzheimer’s pathology to study by Wemicke. Afterward he comes involved in 1932 year in a car’s accident , his artistic  production  have sensibleness  a compositional diminution, after all he comes illness of ictus , lost the capacity of express of reading the music , remaining single to directing the orchestra. He comes operated at head  by surgeon Clois Vincent which confirms a cerebral atrophy , afterward the researchers Luigi Amaducci, Enrico Grasdsi, François Boller in them study confirm the disease” Maurice Ravel have the creativity hemisphere right : Influence of disease on his las musical works” reelevating the effects from neuropathy of composer into his works , presents again in Boléro. He dies to Paris in 28 December 1937.

RAVEL AND HIS COMPOSITIVE OPERA

“Sonata for pianoforte, Variations on a theme by Grieg, Ballade de la reine morte d’aimer, Sérénate grotesque, Un grand sommeil noir, Menuet antique, Valse, valse in re major for pianoforte. Chanson de route, Flight in re major, Tout est lumière for soprano, choir mixt and orchestra, Jeux d’eau in mi major for pianoforte, Allegro moderate , très doux, Animé, Menuet, Prelude, Ronde”….He not wants to be a king from music , wants only express him , romantic, nostalgic in musical colors. The styles are diverse ; Basque, Spanish and Russian from jazz with blues. He wants know the music, want express his temperament, his character and wants evidence the effects in orchestral music. A musical renew for the  European academic traditional in style, quality and expression. As impressionist searching the color , the light diffuse which dominates  entire  current so Ravel search the styles for express his passion , his musical soul. A desire is evident , present again in disease, romantic runs meticulous the study from compositional works . Jazz, blues,….are presents. A soul fleeting , leaving the present for understand the sensibility. The music ask Ravel , he searchs the sensibility . In elegance of jazz, blues…