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Nationality (legal) Swiss. Occupation. Civil engineer. Known for. Steam-driven automobile. Pierre-Joseph Ravel (1832–1908) was a Swiss civil engineer and inventor, father of the composer Maurice Ravel. He was a pioneer of the automobile industry.
Ravel in 1925. Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer.
Pierre-Joseph Ravel was a civil engineer and inventor who pioneered the automobile industry and patented a steam-powered car. He was the father of the composer Maurice Ravel and a Swiss citizen by marriage.
Pierre Joseph Ravel, one of five children, was born in Versoix, and although he was to pursue a career as an engineer, the father of Maurice Ravel was keenly interested in music. He possessed an inventive, inquisi-tive mind and played a pioneering role in the developing European automobile industry. Pierre Joseph frequently took his sons to visit
An inventive father. Ravel’s father Joseph was an inventor, responsible for a notorious ‘Whirlwind of Death’ circus machine. Joseph took his sons to factories to see the latest machinery and instilled in them a love of music. 15 images.
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Notes on Ravel. OF THOSE composers I most love, Ravel is the single one through whose sound I feel the man himself. The. by Ned Rorem. Of those composers I most love, Ravel is the single one through whose sound I feel the man himself. The feeling can rise straight from a harmony hit in passing, evoking within a split second the vastly non ...
espagnole went into rehearsal. Pierre-Joseph Ravel died in October 1908. These personal and professional traumas did not prevent the year 1907 from being one of Ravel’s most productive. In March he completed his Vocalise-Étude en forme de Habanera, in April Les grands vents venus d’outremer, and in June Sur l’herbe.
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