Boléro
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thumb|right|Ravel's Boléro, Lamoureux Orchestra, directed by Ravel himself, first part thumb|right|Ravel's Boléro, Lamoureux Orchestra, directed by Ravel himself, 1930 12" shellac disc label
Key facts
- Musical composition.name
- Boléro
- Musical composition.type
- Orchestral music
- Musical composition.composer
- Maurice Ravel
- Musical composition.image
- Ida Rubinstein 1922c.jpg
- Musical composition.image_upright
- 1.1
- Musical composition.caption
- Ida Rubinstein, who commissioned Boléro, in 1922
- Musical composition.client
- Ida Rubinstein
- Musical composition.scoring
- orchestra
- Musical composition.premiere_conductor
- Walther Straram
- Musical composition.premiere_location
- Paris Opéra
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Composition
- Premiere and early performances
- Toscanini
- Early popularity
- Music
- Structure
- Tempo and duration
- Reception
- In popular culture
- Public domain
- References
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|right|Ravel's Boléro, Lamoureux Orchestra, directed by Ravel himself, first part thumb|right|Ravel's Boléro, Lamoureux Orchestra, directed by Ravel himself, 1930 12" shellac disc label
Boléro is a 1928 work for large orchestra by French composer Maurice Ravel. It is one of Ravel's most famous compositions. It was also one of his last completed works before illness diminished his ability to write music.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Boléro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.