{"id":4634,"date":"2016-04-13T11:04:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T01:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4634"},"modified":"2016-04-13T11:04:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T01:04:48","slug":"szymanowski-on-ravel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4634","title":{"rendered":"Szymanowski on Ravel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Polish composer Karol Szymanowski wrote of the French composer Maurice Ravel in 1925:<\/p>\n

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Whether he writes a “Rapsodie espagnole”, “M\u00e9lodies grecques”, or the almost Viennese “La Valse”, he always remains one of the foremost fascinating representatives of the genius of his race. \u00a0He assembles all the fundamental elements of that most beautiful culture in the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Cited in: James, Burnett (1983) Ravel: His Life and Times<\/span>. \u00a0New York: Hippocrene Books, p.137.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Polish composer Karol Szymanowski wrote of the French composer Maurice Ravel in 1925: Whether he writes a “Rapsodie espagnole”, “M\u00e9lodies grecques”, or the almost Viennese “La Valse”, he always remains one of the foremost fascinating representatives of the genius of his race. \u00a0He assembles all the fundamental elements of that most beautiful culture in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[584],"tags":[1136,801],"class_list":["post-4634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composers-quotes","tag-karol-szymanowski","tag-maurice-ravel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4635,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions\/4635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}