Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Most notable works

Paris Conservatoire; he was not well regarded by its conservative establishment,

 “Boléro”
whose biased treatment of him caused a scandal. After leaving the conservatoire,
Ravel found his own way as a composer, developing a style of great clarity and  Pavane pour une infante défunte
incorporating elements of modernism, baroque, neoclassicism and, in his later (1899; Pavane for a Dead Princess)
works, jazz. He liked to experiment with musical form, as in his best-known work,  Rapsodie espagnole (1907)
Boléro (1928), in which repetition takes the place of development. Renowned for
his abilities in orchestration, Ravel made some orchestral arrangements of other
composers' piano music, of which his 1922 version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an
Exhibition is the best known. Ravel was in no sense a revolutionary musician. He
was for the most part content to work within the established formal and harmonic
conventions of his day, still firmly rooted in tonality—i.e., the organization of
music around focal tones. Yet, so very personal and individual was his adaptation

Chamber
 Sonate (No. 1)
 String Quartet in F major
 Tzigane

Piano Solo
 Piano Sonata Choral:
 Sérénade grotesque
 Callerhoe
 Menuet antique
 Les Bayadères
 Pavane pour une infante défunte
 Myrrha, cantata
 Jeux d'eau
 Alcyone
Stage  L'Aurore
 Shéhérazade, Ouverture de féerie
 Olympia
 Daphnis et Chloé
 Adélaïde ou le langage des fleurs