This post could have also been entitled: Maurice Ravel: the Basque composer who believed in his country   Maurice Ravel, one of the greatest composers of the extraordinarily creative period spanning from the last decades of the XIXth century to the beginning of Second World War, was born on March 7, 1875 in Ciboure (Lapurdi). … Continue reading A tribute to Maurice Ravel, “a Basque hidden from the view of the Basque people”, on the 141st anniversary of his birth”