The Ballets of Maurice Ravel: Creation and Interpretation

by Deborah Mawer

Book Overview

Maurice Ravel collaborated with some of the greatest ballet directors, choreographers, designers and dancers of his time, including Diaghilev, Ida Rubinstein, Benois and Nijinsky. In this book Deborah Mawer explores these relationships and emphasizes the importance of the performative dimension in realizing Ravel's achievement. Indeed, she proposes that the composer's large-scale oeuvre can be viewed as a balletic undertaking. In so doing, the book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113826413X
• ISBN13: 9781138264137
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"