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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.
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
Pierre Joseph Ravel was a Swiss civil engineer and inventor, father of the composer Maurice Ravel. Background. Pierre Joseph Ravel was born in Versoix, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland in 1832. His father, Aimé (or Ami) Ravel, was born in Collonges-sous-Salève in France. Career. He was a pioneer of the automobile industry.
Pierre-Joseph Ravel's father, Aime Ravel, was born in Collonges-sous-Saleve in France. 5. Pierre-Joseph Ravel moved to Versoix where he worked as a baker and became a Swiss citizen in 1834 through marriage to a young Swiss girl, Caroline Grosfort.
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,
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.
Died: December 28, 1937 – Paris, France. A Few Facts about Joseph-Maurice Ravel: Ravel’s father Pierre-Joseph was an engineer and manufacturer who invented an early version of the internal combustion engine.
