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• Aphasia in Maurice Ravel - Richard Cytowic, MD provides a medical biography on the brain affliction that ended the composer's output, "trapping" new nusic in his head. [DOC format.]
• Bob's Opera World: L'Heure espagnole - Short synopsis.
• Classical Music Archives: Ravel - Biography from the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. Over 85 complete files offered in MIDI, MP3, and Windows Media audio formats, including live recordings of featured artists.
• Honoring Maurice Ravel - Tribute to the composer, biography and overview of his compositions with analysis of their music theory, plus links.
• House of Maurice Ravel - Background information and photograph of his birth home references his ongoing attachment to the town of Ciboure, where he later composed Bolero. Includes link to church where he was baptized.
• How Maurice Ravel Fell Sick, and How He Died - Synopsis of a play based on the composer's life-story.
• Maurice Ravel - Filmography at IMDb listing movies and television shows using or based on his music. Includes basic biography and trivia.
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) - Karadar dictionary entry with life and works, related composers, MIDI audio of Bolero, Pavanne for a Dead Princess, and other works, photographs and illustrations, catalogue by opus number, and link to lieder.
• Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) - Brief biographical sketch, caricature, summaries of stage works and orchestral, vocal, chamber, and piano music, and Naxos discography.
• Maurice Ravel (Heart's Ease) - Brief biography, key works and resources.
• Maurice Ravel Frontispice - Documented information about his works, life, friends, and personality, including religion, love, style, politics.
• Maurice Ravel: The Swiss Watchmaker of Music - Brief biography, key works, suggested reading, timeline, recommended recordings, and quotes from Humanities Web.
• Ravel Works List - By chronology, name, category. Downloadable.
• Ravel, Joseph Maurice - Entry from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music at WQXR radio with family background, biography, notes on influences and peers, comments on style, and listing of major works.
• Ravel, Joseph Maurice (Ciboure, 1875 - Paris, 1937) - Oxford Dictionary of Music entry at xrefer compares and contrasts him with peers, emphasizing his connection to the Romantic era and the intellectual content of his works. Lists compositions and transcriptions, many with cross references.
• Maurice Ravel - Information on his life and works plus downloadable MIDI files of Bolero and Pavanne for a Dead Princess.
• Recollections of My Lazy Childhood - Essay by the composer.

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