Maurice Ravel's museum house
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- čas přidán 8. 10. 2018
- The composer Maurice Ravel was born on the 7th March 1875 at Ciboure, in the south west of France.
In 1921, he settled in Montfort l'Amaury.
He bought a little house called "Le Belvédère".
His friend, the famous conductor Manuel Rosenthal, described it : "It's a little house something like a small pavilion not even a detached house...Outside it looks just like a slice of camembert!".
He found the favourable calm of the village to his composition and the same time, he was near Paris.
The place appealed straightaway, in particular the view from the balcony opening on to the town and the surrounding countryside.
He died in Paris on the 28th december 1937. He is buried in the cemetery of Levallois-Perret.
I've read a bit about this house. It originally consisted of four big rooms, which Ravel subdivided into 12 tiny ones and that narrow corridor. After touring the place with its idiosyncratic decor and bric a brac, one of Ravel's biographers wrote that it was "the home of a man who had no intention of sharing his life with anyone".
Ce biographe était-il Marcel Marnat ?
@@zecisalpin Benjamin Ivry, "Maurice Ravel: A Life" (2000).
One of the most beautiful homes and gardens I’ve ever seen. Thank you.
I visited it and agree with you
This small house is decorated inside with great taste of a musician and composer. ❤
Nice documentary, and what a beatiful house: it's comforting to think that he could spend the last, sad years of his life in such a wonderful place.
Thanks for this. Visiting was a memorable day back in the early 2000's. The wonderful lady who gave tours of the house was kind to myself and my mother, giving us a lift to the station later.
Beautiful, inspiring documentary.
Such an exquisite documentary. I wish that I could have met him,. (Perhaps sometime.)
Me to :)
I love this place
Oh hi themusicprofessor. Have you ever visited Ravel's house?
SPLENDID
So much respect this Genus
The name of the pianist who commissioned the Left Hand Concerto was Paul Wittgenstein, not Wittingstein, as the narrator says. The recording by Wittgenstein unfortunately demonstrates that the piece was technically beyond him- it is an astounding embarrassment of missed notes, fudged runs and even bits of improvisation to cover up passages that are particularly hard. It's amazing that anyone considered the recording worthy of release. It's on youtube.
The 1937 with Walter is a mess, but he recorded on film the opening cadenza and, in 1959, he recorded again the concerto. And it was much better that in the 1937 performance....
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Your so kind! I think that most interested people know the correct spelling of the man’s name. His performance speaks for itself. I wonder how you’d play it if you lost an arm in the war!
7:10 non pas les "Enfants" mais les "Chansons madécasses"
Which version of Bolero, though? I liked it a lot. ☺️
How to go?
I have always felt this composers work to reveal an understated and controlled evil.
When you listen to the mother goose suite, or the Pavane pour une infante défunte, it is not the impression one gets. Rather i feel his soul was open to a very wide range maybe from solitude and keep in mind the horrors of WW1 which was a butchery with the first machine guns when soldiers were still fighting a footsolider saber war and getting teared to pieces by bullets. Ravel lost many friends of his generation and more mutilated. This certainly would have given a different perspective on life than say the opulent and luxurious days of the later 19th century. Yes humans are capable of good but of greater evil yet.
It is indeed sad that he could not share his life and home with another gay man, with the physical erotic times that would have been so sweet and comforting.
Maurice Ravel n'était pas homosexuel, il a même fait une proposition de mariage à Hélène Jourdan-Morhange.
Ceci dit, de temps à autre il fréquentait les femmes de petite vertu...