Public Research Seminar: Emily Kilpatrick
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire - Workshop 2
200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR
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Emily Kilpatrick - "I believe it’s what had to be said": Maurice Ravel at 150
What does it mean to be an ‘original’ artist? This was a question with which the young Maurice Ravel, battling charges of imitation and even plagiarism, found himself uncomfortably preoccupied. He would respond both in music and in words, asserting his claims to originality through increasingly authoritative negotiations of principle and practice. In advance of a forthcoming new biography, I reflect on the stories told of Ravel, and those he chose to tell about himself.
Pianist and scholar, Professor Emily Kilpatrick has published widely on French music, including the monographs The Operas of Maurice Ravel (2015), French Art Song: History of a New Music, 1870–1914 (2022), and a biography of Ravel (forthcoming for 2025). With Roy Howat, she is co-editor of the first complete critical edition of the songs and vocalises of Gabriel Fauré (Peters Edition). Emily teaches across the undergraduate and postgraduate academic programmes at the Royal Academy of Music, London.
Running time approx. one hour and 30 minutes