Ravel

Resumen del libro

Roger Nichols is the author of The Life of Debussy and The Harlequin Years: Music in Paris 1917-1929. He has edited most of Ravel's piano music for Peters Edition of London.

" An insightful biography."-Michael Downes, Times Literary Supplement

"Although little is known about Ravel's private life - usually the key area of interest for non-academics - Roger Nichols has produced an exceptionally comprehensive work. He attaches himself fully to his subject, weaving the successes, failures and travels with illuminating trivia."-Anna Britten, Classic FM Magazine

"Roger Nichols' volume on Ravel in the Master Musicians series dates from 1977, but this new book is far more than a mere reworking. The availability of much new material has led to a threefold expansion of the original, beautifully produced and very reasonably priced.....One could hardly wish for a more authoritative guide to Ravel."-Philip Borg-Wheeler, Classical Music

"This new book about the life and works of Ravel follows Nichols useful Ravel Remembered (Faber) scrutinising facts and compositions with lapidary attention.....Nichols is an invaluably thorough guide"-Benjamin Ivry, International Piano

".....a major work of scholarship by a leading authority on French repertoire, bristling with insight, interest and authority."-Michael White, The Tablet
" A landmark work."-Chester Lane, SymphonyNOW

"A compelling new biography unravels the mysteries surrounding Ravel.....Mysterious to the end, the fascination of its subject remains fresh throughout this thorough and sympathetic account."-Robert Maycock, BBC Music Magazine

"A quite superb book, simply entitled Ravel, written by the Englishmen who knows his work better than any other, Roger Nichols."-Simon Heffer, The Sunday Telegraph

"An excellent new biography of Ravel by Roger Nichols makes clear his ambiguous and fluctuating relation to full-fledged avant-garde modernism. The book is the most nearly complete and inclusive account of his life and work."-Charles Rosen, The New York Review of Books