Roger Nichols read Music at Worcester College, Oxford, with Edmund Rubbra and Frederick Sternfeld. He taught both Music and Classics in various schools and universities, before becoming a freelance writer, broadcaster and pianist in 1981. He was decorated as Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur in 2006 for his 40 years of service to French music. He has written and contributed to over twenty books on music and has edited the bulk of Ravel's piano music for Peters Edition.
"An excellent new biography of Ravel by Roger Nichols makes clear
his ambiguous and fluctuating relation to full-fledged avant-garde
modernism. The book is the most nearly complete and inclusive
account of his life and work." Charles Rosen, The New York Review
of Books--Charles Rosen "The New York Review of Books ""
"Mr. Nichols writes perceptively about Ravel's personality and how
it shaped his music, and about the earlier works' influence on
later compositions. . . . One leaves Mr. Nichols's Ravel with a
sense of the author's deep insight as well as Ravel's." James
Penrose, The New Criterion--James Penrose "The New Criterion ""
[A] landmark work. Chester Lane, SymphonyNOW--Chester Lane
"SymphonyNOW ""
Nichols . . . enriches our understanding of [a] compositional
titan. Chester Lane, SymphonyNOW--Chester Lane "SymphonyNOW ""
Roger Nichols s new book bids fair to be the best-ever biography of
Ravel in English. Mark DeVoto, Notes--Mark DeVoto"Notes"
(03/25/2013)"
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