Maurice Ravel Museum
The Musée Maurice Ravel in Montfort-l'Amaury , a French commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region , is located in the Villa Le Belvédère , where the composer Maurice Ravel lived from 1921 until his death in 1937 .
Villa Le Belvédère
House number 5 on Rue Maurice Ravel, above the old town of Montfort-l'Amaury, offers a wide view of the city and the forest of Rambouillet . From 1921 Maurice Ravel composed all of his works here, e. B. L'enfant et les sortilèges and the Boléro .
The villa was built in 1907 according to the plans of the Parisian architect Jacques Morel . Maurice Ravel had it rebuilt after 1921 according to his ideas and in 1926/27 he had a Japanese garden laid out. Since 1994 the villa has been registered as a monument historique in the list of monuments.
museum
The house was donated to the Réunion des musées nationaux in 1971 and then converted into a museum. Today the museum is run by the municipality of Montfort-l'Amaury, which renovated the building. Since the museum reopened in 2004, guided tours have taken place on the weekends. Guided tours can also be arranged on other days by prior arrangement.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes des Yvelines. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84234-070-1 , p. 600.
- Georges Poisson (ed.): Dictionnaire des monuments d'Île-de-France. Paris 2001 (1st edition 1999), ISBN 2-84334-002-0 , p. 541.
Web links
- Musée Maurice Ravel Description as Monument historique in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French text)
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 34.2 " N , 1 ° 48 ′ 19.3" E