He knew the Great War
The artists also paid their tribute to the Great War. Some lost their lives. Others were bruised. Among them Maurice Ravel. Born in 1875 and died in 1937, he was exempted because "too light of 2 kg", he did everything to be incorporated. He was sent to the front as a truck driver, and went to war near Verdun in 1916. It was there that he fell ill and almost died 12 years before composing the famous Bolero, which made him world famous with its 340 bars of a long and single movement that lasts 16 minutes and which was inspired by a factory and its machines.
Maurice RAVEL playing piano in 1912
Surprised by his success
A worldwide success that surprised and annoyed him a little, as he had composed so many more elaborate melodies since he entered the conservatory in 1889, at the age of 14. A beautiful path initiated by his engineer father who, knowing him to be lazy, had guessed that the kid's passion for music could lead to great things. Described as a romantic musician, 40 years of composition made him one of the great names in music alongside other composers of his time, Debussy, Fauré, Prokofiev or Gershwin. Ravel's art of speaking to the heart and bringing out emotions all over the world, whatever the language or culture, was born in France.
Excuse our translator for the mistakes, he didn't sleep much last night he is newly married
