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Pierre-Joseph Ravel (1832–1908) was a Swiss civil engineer and inventor, father of the composer Maurice Ravel. He was a pioneer of the automobile industry.
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Pierre Joseph Ravel was a Swiss civil engineer and inventor, father of the composer Maurice Ravel.
PIERRE-JOSEPH RAVEL, né en 1832, était originaire de Versoix. Après des études d’ingénieur, il dirigera la construction de la ligne de chemin-de-fer Madrid-Irun, en Espagne. On le retrouve en 1868 à Paris.
A century ago (on the hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth) Ravel was born of solvent and understanding parents in the village of Ciboure near the Spanish frontier. These few facts color all that he became.
Pierre Joseph Ravel, one of five children, was born in Versoix, and although he was to pursue a career as an engineer, the father of Maurice Ravel was keenly interested in music. He possessed an inventive, inquisi-tive mind and played a pioneering role in the developing European automobile industry. Pierre Joseph frequently took his sons to visit
As Marcel Marnat writes, Pierre-Joseph also shared the general opinion that ‘real success for a musician would be conferred in the theatre’. 13 This explains in part why Ravel worked so feverishly, that spring and summer,
