Meeting with Ravel

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102C G10 Mindy A Meeting with Ravel. When I was asked which historical figure I would most like to meet, a great number of people immediately jumped into my head. The first person I want to meet is Albert Einstein because everyone knows he is a great person who developed the general theory of relativity, and he was also famous for his mass energy equivalence formula E=mc2. I wonder what he really looks like and why he could come up with so many excellent theories at that time. The second one is Vincent Willem van Gogh because I like some of his paintings very much. His paintings were full of deep passion and emotion, and the colors he used are bold and vivid. Therefore, I wonder how he painted these paintings and why he committed suicide in 1890. The final person I want to meet is Maurice Ravel, a talented French musician who is known for his impressionist music. He composed many brilliant music works such as Bolero, Piano concert for the left hand and so on. Compare to other famous musician such as Franz Schubert who had a lot of completed relationships with other women, Ravel was not famous for his personal life, and seldom people knew his intimate relationships. He remained a mystery of his personal life. I wonder what his real life in 1923 and how he could compose so much innovative music. After a while, I decided to have a meeting with Ravel because I was really curious about the piece he composed called Le Tombeau de Couperin which was completed in 1914. It is a piano suite and there are six parts in the work. When I was in junior high school, I played the final part “Toccata” and find it is very difficult to interpret. There were many skills and beautiful melody hidden in the work. If you want to perform it professionally, you need to practice a lot and think a lot. I want to ask him to play the work for me and told me the meaning of the work.

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