On 21 March 1925, Monte Carlo staged the first performance of L’enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Spells), by Maurice Ravel. The première of Ravel’s second and final opera was a resounding success, and the composer praised an

The name Hélène Jourdan-Morhange may be obscure today, but she was the dedicatee of a handful of the most beloved violin works in the repertoire. She was also a muse, interpreter, and chronicler of a golden era of French music.

Nowadays, when we think of Maurice Ravel, we usually picture the elegance of Boléro, not the mud and chaos of the Western Front. But World War I had a major impact on Maurice Ravel’s life and music. The Franco-Prussian War,

Maurice Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit is widely regarded as one of the pinnacles of piano literature. It exemplifies the symbiosis between literary inspiration and musical innovation in the early twentieth century. Based on Aloysius Bertrand’s 1842 collection Gaspard de la nuit: Fantaisies

In our last article about Maurice Ravel (Read “Maurice Ravel at the Turn of the Century”), we left off shortly after the resolution of the affaire Ravel, the controversy surrounding Ravel’s exclusion by the judges of the Prix de Rome

In the year of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Maurice Ravel, Moroccan pianist Aïda Lahlou releases her début album, Mirrors and Echoes, a vivid and thoughtful reimagining of Ravel’s five-movement piano cycle, Miroirs, which places Ravel’s work in

The ARTE Concert production “Ravel in a Thousand Sparkles” is a musical and visual tribute to Maurice Ravel, created to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth in 2025. The production offers an innovative blend of music, visuals, and storytelling.

Thanks to the precision of his compositional technique, the work of Maurice Ravel has been compared to that of “a Swiss watchmaker.” The descriptor is even more accurate than it seems at first glance. Maurice’s father, Pierre-Joseph, was indeed Swiss,