4/10/2024 0 Comments Ravel string quartet sibelius file![]() 10 Calvocoressi, "Maurice Ravel" (The Musical Times, 54, no. Myers, Ravel: Life and Works (London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., 1960), 20. A statement made once by composer Jules Massanet during a lecture on composition – “in order to know your own technique, you must learn the technique of other people”8 – greatly inspired Ravel, and he quoted it frequently 9 when speaking of teaching, for example, Ravel has said that “by studying the masters, he must learn not to ape them, but to study himself, as they have done.”10 3 Rollo H. “He was growing up at a time when new ideas were in the air and music, no less than painting, was waking to new life and preparing to break down the barriers imposed upon it by stuffy nineteenth-century conventions.”7 iii. Though only a boy of fourteen, he “too was struck by the Javanese gamelan and the performances of Russian music given by Rimsky-Korsakov”.5 Yet, apart from the “gapped” scale, of which Ravel was especially fond, “the direct influence of this exotic music…is on the whole less discernable in music than in that of Debussy” Ravel’s music tends to be more modal and takes its color more from European sources than Asian.6 1. “espite a Parisian upbringing, Ravel always felt close to his Basque heritage, and by extension, to Spain”4, as can be evidenced in some of his later works such as Habanera (later incorporated into his Rapsodie Espagnole), L’Heure Espagnole, and Boléro. The thing had become a public scandal…Meanwhile, whatever Ravel’s feelings may have been, he said nothing, took no action and remained aloof from the controversy that raged round him.”3 f. Ravel may look upon us as old fogeys if he pleases, but he will not with impunity make fools of us.’…There were violent protests in the national Press…and musicians of all shades of opinion were shocked by what had now become ‘l’affaire Ravel’. © 2007 Sarah Wallin 1 the more bigoted members of the Institute, one of whom went so far as to declare: ‘M. Kelly, “Ravel, (Joseph) Maurice”, (Grove Music Online ed. Roger Nichols, Ravel Remembered (New York: W.W. “He was, by now, because of the Quartet, Schéhérazade, and Jeaux d’Eau, looked upon as suspect and a dangerous revolutionary by 1 Quote by Roland-Manuel, trans. ![]() He remained with Fauré as an auditor until he left the Conservatoire in 1903.”2 e. Although he produced some substantial works during this period…he won neither the fugue nor the composition prize and was dismissed from the composition class in 1900. “…he later described both teachers as crucial influences on his technique and musicianship. ![]() In 1889, at age fourteen, he began attending piano lessons and classes at the Conservatoire de Paris, and in 1895 he began to devote himself entirely to composition, enrolling in a composition class under Gabriel Fauré and studying counterpoint with André Gédalge in 1897. At age seven Ravel began studying the piano with Henri Ghys, and five years later attempted his first compositions. Born in the French village of Ciboure three months later the family moved to Paris. The outbursts of lyricism find forceful expression within the framework of an uncompromising classicism without breaking it they move so freely within it that the composer sometimes used to doubt its success.”1 2. The intense suavity of this grave, youthful music makes it appear the most spontaneous work Ravel has ever written. “‘My String Quartet,’ said Ravel, ‘represents a conception of musical construction, imperfectly realized no doubt, but set out much more precisely than in my earlier compositions.’ All the same, though not to contradict the composer, it is noticeable how, if this work really represents so absolute a conception of structure, it does so with extraordinary vigour, rhythmical ease and melodic verve. ![]() Sarah Wallin Ravel’s String Quartet: History and Analysis 1. ![]()
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