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  "name": "Maurice Ravel",
  "description": "Maurice Ravel appears 2 times in our Impressionism list, placing as high as No. 5. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-30",
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      "trackKey": "maurice-ravel--bolero",
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      "title": "Boléro",
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      "label": null,
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      "whyItMatters": "One melody, one rhythm, fifteen minutes, one crescendo, no development whatsoever. Ravel called it a piece without music in it; a lot of this site is downstream of that description.",
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      "trackKey": "maurice-ravel--pavane-pour-une-infante-defunte",
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      "title": "Pavane pour une infante défunte",
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      "whyItMatters": "Ravel later dismissed it as poorly written and remarkably indebted to Chabrier. He was wrong, and the horn entry is one of the loveliest moments in French music.",
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