Fifty years ago today, the composer Maurice Ravel died in a Paris hospital after undergoing brain surgery. The operation was supposed to cure a puzzling ailment-now identified as Pick`s disease, ...

Jean Echenoz’s novel, latest winner of the French-American and Florence Gould foundations prize for Linda Coverdale’s translation, evokes the last days of French composer Maurice Ravel, as he crosses ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — When Maurice Ravel visited Northeast Ohio in 1928, not everything went according to plan. The French composer had a reputation for being far more brilliant on paper than in person.

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Maurice Ravel. Ravel’s music is threaded throughout the week, alongside works by his friends in the artistic group Les Apaches, including Maurice Delage, ...

Most have heard the famous opening of Mussorgsky/Ravel’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” with its regal brass chorale used in films, TV, video games, and even as WWE entrance music. This year, we mark ...

Maurice Rosenthal, a French composer and conductor who was a student of Ravel and a vigorous champion of French composers from Offenbach to Messiaen, died on June 5 at his home in Paris. He was 98. As ...