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Facts

Also Known As Joseph-Maurice Ravel
Born March 7, 1875 • France
Died December 28, 1937 (aged 62) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Boléro” • “The Child and the Enchantments”
Movement / Style Impressionism

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Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel seated at a desk, wearing a suit and looking toward the camera while writing on sheet music with a pen, circa 1928.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Portrait of composer Sergey Prokofiev, circa 1938, wearing round glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking slightly to the side.
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
French composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer
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Darius Milhaud
French composer
Lalo
Édouard Lalo
French composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Portrait of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak with a beard, wearing a suit jacket, waistcoat, and bow tie.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Dmitry Shostakovich sits at a desk by a window, looking at sheet music, wearing glasses and a suit, with papers and books arranged on the desk.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, with a serious expression and a brick wall in the background.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
British composer
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Walter Piston
American composer
Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger
French composer
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Henri Sauguet
French composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer

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