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What Makes It So Great?
by Robert Kapilow

Robert Kapilow

"Le Tombeau de Couperin"
Maurice Ravel was a truck driver in World War One and he lost many of his friends in battle. As Rob Kapilow demonstrates, the piece Ravel dedicated to his friends, "Le Tombeau de Couperin", is a surprisingly delicate response to the horrors of war.

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 Listen to the Minuet from "Le Tombeau de Couperin"