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Maurice Ravel
French
Composer
Born:
Mar 7
,
1875
Died:
Dec 28
,
1937
Always
Constitute
Drop
Me
Remember
Work
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Jules Massenet
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I begin by considering an effect.
Maurice Ravel
Considering
Effect
Begin
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
Maurice Ravel
You
Lose
Second-Rate
Composing
Rate
Ravel
Instead
Spontaneity
First-Rate
End
Up
Gershwin
Might
Your
Second
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
Maurice Ravel
Single
Intuition
Composition
Raven
Clear
Perfection
Towards
Make
Equation
Inevitability
Mathematical
Cell
Precision
Intention
Moved
Regard
Found
Here
Chance
Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!
Maurice Ravel
Remember
Princess
Dead
Wrote
I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.
Maurice Ravel
Work
Best
Great
Relatively
Everything
Worst
Composers
Written
Quantity
Always
Am
Little
Produced
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