Ravel Remembered

Composers Remembered is an absorbing series of personal recollections and reminiscences of major composers from the seventeenth century to the present day. The memoirs of relatives, friends, and fellow musicians are gathered from letters, diaries, and published sources to give a unique overview of each composer's personality, life, and times. Each volume includes a chronology of related historical and cultural events that provocatively places the subject within the spirit of the times.

In Ravel Remembered, the composer of some of the best-loved music in the orchestral repertoire -- including such favorites as La Valse, Daphnis and Chloe, and Bolero -- is examined. The common view of Maurice Ravel as a cold and retiring personality was not supported by his friends, as Roger Nichols demonstrates. His book is a delightful melange of illuminating accounts of the man and his music by those who knew him best, among them Stravinsky, Cocteau, Colette, Poulenc, and Manuel de Falla.

ISBN	0571149863	Pages	231
ISBN13	9780571149865 (What's this?)	Volumes	001
Publisher	Faber and Faber	Weight (grammes)	337
Imprint	Faber and Faber	Published in	London
Format	Paperback	Series title	Composers remembered series
Publication date	23 Nov 1987	Height (mm)	215
Library of Congress	ML410.R23	Width (mm)	134
DEWEY	780.92	Spine width (mm)	15
DEWEY edition	DC21	Academic level	General, Professional / Scholarly

	List of illustrations
	Introduction
	Acknowledgements
	Chronology
I	Boyhood and student years	1
II	A child at heart	17
III	Opinions, tastes and traits	23
IV	Daphnis et Chloe and Bolero	39
V	On composing	53
VI	As teacher	65
VII	On performances of his music	71
VIII	As pianist and conductor	87
IX	Fellow artists	99
X	At home	119
XI	As friend and companion	137
XII	On tour	159
XIII	Last years	165
XIV	Two tributes	175
	Index	199

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