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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 was a Swiss civil engineer and inventor, father of the composer Maurice Ravel.
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.
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, on his setting of Franc-Nohain’s one-act play L ’Heure espagnole.
Basque origin, and Pierre Joseph Ravel (1832- ten both ways) lived in this village, and it ap- 1908), a Swiss civil engineer, had been mar- pears that the name Ravel came about from a ried in Paris on April 3, 1873. Born of Catho- subsequent misreading of the final t in Ravet.
Ravel was born in the Basque town of Ciboure, France, near Biarritz, 18 kilometres (11 mi) from the Spanish border. His father, Pierre-Joseph Ravel, was an educated and successful engineer, inventor and manufacturer, born in Versoix near the Franco-Swiss border.
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.
