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Ravel & La Tombelle: String Quartets

4/9/2021, 8 Tracks, 57:25

Featuring

  • Sebastian Schmidt
  • Nanette Schmidt
  • Andreas Willwohl
  • Bernhard Schmidt
  • Mandelring Quartett
  • Maurice Ravel
  • Fernand de La Tombelle

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Composer Biography

Maurice Ravel, despite his slight stature of 1.58 meters, was known for his striking appearance and meticulous elegance.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

The Mandelring Quartett, founded in 1983, initiated the HAMBACHERMusikFEST in their home city of Neustadt an der Weinstraße in 1997, which has become a global meeting point for chamber music lovers.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Fernand de La Tombelle's father was brutally murdered, a shock from which he took a long time to recover.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Fernand de La Tombelle, a composer and organist, had many hobbies including photography, drawing, writing poetry, acting, architecture, painting, astronomy, regional history, and cycling.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Maurice Ravel's String Quartet, while inspired by Claude Debussy's earlier quartet, developed Ravel's own sound, described as even more colourful and refined, akin to porcelain and glass artifacts.

Source: Booklet

Critical Reception

After the premiere of Maurice Ravel's String Quartet, music critic Jean Marnold urged readers to remember Ravel's name, declaring him 'one of the masters of tomorrow'.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Maurice Ravel's repeated failures to win the prestigious 'Prix de Rome' led to a scandal in 1905 that forced the director of the Paris Conservatoire to resign.

Source: Booklet

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