1921 Genuine VISIT Card MAURICE RAVEL Montfort-L'Amaury

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Dear customer / Friend , Kindly note that t are NUMEROUS similar SIGNED MUSICAL PROGRAMMES , AUTOGRAPHS of CONDUCTORS and INSTRUMENTALISTS , CONCERTS POSTERS etc. These items don't appear when you perform a regular SEARCH but you'll be able to watch ALL of them should you use the LINK to my STORE. Please do !! Thanks. LEGENDARY MUSICIANS. PLEASE READ THIS short GUIDE for EASY and USEFUL search on my STORE : 1. Please REFINE your search by using a main CODE like for example " CELIBIDACHE " or "CONCERT" or " PROGRAMME " or " POSTER " in the small window at the top left corner of the store PAGE . Pls DO NOT mark "TITLE & DESCRIPTION" but ONLY "TITLE " then you'll receive EXACTLY what you are looking for. 2. My STORE is REFRESHENED and RENEWED on a WEEKLY basis with many new items added. Tfore it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to keep watching it on a regular basis. By choosing the "NEWLY LISTED" option , You'll be able to see only the NEW recent listings. THANK YOU !! for sale is an ORIGINAL item , Not a reprint or copy. It's an ORIGINAL Visit Card of MAURICE RAVEL , The adress is LE BELVEDERE , Montfort L'Amaury , RAVEL 's house ever since he bought it in 1921.********* Original VISIT CARD . 2" x 3" . Excellent condition. ( Please watch the scan for the accurate AS IS condition ). Buyer to pay international shipp ( $15 for un-insured registered airmail $25 for EMS - Fully insured express delivery mail ). . Payment can be made by USD personal check , International money order or W estern Union transfer. Paypal is also acceptable with addition of 5%. MORE About : Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 - December 28, 1937) was a Basque French composer and pianist of the impressionistic period, known especially for the subtlety, richness and poignancy of his music. His piano music, chamber music, vocal music and orchestral music have become staples of the concert repertoire.Ravel's piano compositions, such as Jeux d'eau , Miroirs and Gaspard de la Nuit , demand considerable virtuosity from the performer, and his orchestral music, including Daphnis et Chloé and his arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition , uses tonal color and variety of sound and instrumentation very effectively.To the general public, Ravel is probably best known for his orchestral work, Boléro , which he considered trivial and once described as "a piece for orchestra without music." According to SACEM, Ravel's estate earns more royalties than that of any other French musician. Most of Ravel's works will not enter the public domain until 2015.Ravel was born in Ciboure (Ziburu in Basque language), in the north of Basque Country, France, near Biarritz, part of the French Basque region. His mother, Marie Delouart, was Basque, while his father, Joseph Ravel, was a Swiss inventor and industrialist. Some of the father's inventions were quite important, including an early internal-combustion engine and a notorious circus machine, the "Whirlwind of Death," an automotive loop-the-loop that was quite a hit in the early 1900s. After the family moved to Paris, Ravel's younger brother Édouard was born. At age seven, young Maurice began piano lessons and, five or six years later, began composing. His parents encouraged his musical pursuits and sent him to the Conservatoire de Paris, first as a preparatory student and eventually as a piano major. During his schooling in Paris, Ravel joined with a number of innovative young artists who referred to themselves as the " Apaches " (hooligans) because of their wild abandon. The group was well known for drunken revelries.He studied music at the Conservatoire under Gabriel Fauré for a remarkable fourteen years. During his years at the Conservatoire, Ravel tried numerous times to win the prestigious Prix de Rome , but to no avail. After a scandal involving his loss of the prize in 1905 (to Victor Gallois -- Ravel had been considered the favorite to win), Ravel left the Conservatoire. The incident --named the "Ravel Affair" by the Parisian press -- also led to the resignation of the Conservatoire's dire... read more

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