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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 118. Chapters: Bela Bartok, Charles Ives, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Benjamin Britten, Pierre Schaeffer, Sergei Prokofiev, Aaron Copland, Paul Hindemith, Kurt Weill, Darius Milhaud, Henry Cowell, Josef Tal, George Antheil, Alexander Scriabin, Leo Ornstein, Edgard Varese, Ingolf Dahl, Dane Rudhyar, Nikolai Obukhov, Johanna Beyer, Jozef Koffler, Zden k Luka, Rene Leibowitz, Carl Ruggles, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Dmitri Klebanov, Ralph Shapey, Alan Rawsthorne, Michael Hennagin, Bill Russell, Yefim Golyshev, Miriam Gideon, Barney Childs, Marion Bauer, Jessie Baetz, Merton Brown. Excerpt: Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 - December 28, 1937) was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects. Much of his piano music, chamber music, vocal music and orchestral music has entered the standard concert repertoire. Ravel's piano compositions, such as Jeux d'eau, Miroirs, Le tombeau de Couperin and Gaspard de la nuit, demand considerable virtuosity from the performer, and his orchestral music, including Daphnis et Chloe and his arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, uses a variety of sound and instrumentation. Ravel is perhaps known best for his orchestral work Bolero (1928), which he considered trivial and once described as "a piece for orchestra without music." According to SACEM, Ravel's estate earns more royalties than that of any other French composer. According to international copyright law, Ravel's works have been in the public domain since January 1, 2008, in most countries. In France, due to anomalous copyright law extensions to account for the two world wars, they will not enter the public domain until 2015. Birthplace of Maurice Ravel in CiboureRavel was born in the Basque town of Ciboure, Franc...
