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Maurice Ravel

1875 to 1937. A composer and pianist.

Three facts about Ravel

  1. In Boléro, a drum plays the same rhythm 169 times. The music grows from very soft to very loud.
  2. Ravel wrote Mother Goose for two children of his friends. It has fairy tales like Sleeping Beauty and Tom Thumb.
  3. Ravel's father was an inventor who built machines.

Ravel’s famous music

Boléro (1928). Hear famous pieces played by Peabody’s band on the listening maps.

Where Ravel lived

Ravel did their best-known work in Paris, in France. 🌍 Fly there on the globe

Can you remember?

How many times does the drum play its rhythm in Boléro?

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