Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel, (1875-1937). French composer of Swiss and Basque parentage. Ravel studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Gabriel Faure and made his name with the opera The Spanish Hour (1911) and the ballet Daphnis and Chloe (1912), which was produced by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. His other works include Pavane for a Dead Infanta (1899) and the famous Bolero (1928). During World War I Ravel was an ambulance driver. In 1935 he suffered brain damage in a car accident and died after a subsequent operation.
