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1875 CE - 1937 CE: Life of the French composer Maurice Ravel.
1875 CE: Maurice Ravel is born in Ciboure in southwest France.
1889 CE: Maurice Ravel enters the Paris Conservatoire.
1899 CE: Maurice Ravel composes his piano work Pavane pour une infante défunte.
1901 CE: Maurice Ravel composes his innovative piano work Jeux d’eau (Fountains).
1903 CE: Muarice Ravel's orchestral song-cycle Shéhérazade is first performed.
1908 CE: Maurice Ravel composes his orchestral piece Rapsodie espagnole.
1909 CE: Maurice Ravel composes his one-act comic opera L’heure espagnole (The Spanish Hour).
1912 CE: Maurice Ravel completes his ballet Daphnis et Chloé. Later made into an orchestral suite.
1917 CE: Maurice Ravel composes his Le tombeau de Couperin (The Grave of Couperin) piano suite.
1920 CE: Maurice Ravel composes his La valse.
1921 CE: Maurice Ravel buys a villa, La Belvedere, just outside Paris in Montfort-l’Amaury.
1925 CE: Maurice Ravel composes his opera L’enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Magic Spells).
1928 CE: Maurice Ravel composes his innovative orchestral piece Bolero.
1931 CE: Maurice Ravel writes his two piano concertos.
1937 CE: Maurice Ravel dies in Paris.