Music and language: the death of Maurice Ravel Delouart
San Juan de Luz Bay, 1933. Maurice Ravel Delouart lies on the surface, stretched out, looking at the sky. The small waves of the bay gently rock the man’s thin body. But his arms and legs don’t obey his orders: his body is without government when he tries to swim, in a tangled splash of inconceivable plistis. In a state of drowning, he decides to stop completely. Don't worry, he won't drown as long as he floats. He's a good swimmer, trained in the sea, something's not right. Fortunately, some young people see him swinging in the middle of the bay and take him out of the water.
Four years later, the Ziburutan composer died on December 28, 1937, at the age of only sixty-two. Eight days earlier, on December 20, he had undergone brain surgery. He then went into a coma and did not wake up again. Ravel lived on the peaks of world music when he began to show symptoms of mental confusion. This confusion affected both the word and the music, because he managed both in the left hemisphere, probably because he was a musician. In fact, in the minds of musicians, unlike the rest, music is a true language, managed in the left hemisphere and using the Broca field, not in the right, as we non-musicians usually do.
From an early age, she was well acquainted with poor health, insomnia and depression; in fact, 1931.ean she had been treating the deep depression in Switzerland caused by the first world war and the death of her mother. The following year, in Paris, he suffered a severe blow to the head in a car accident and it seems that it was then that serious neurological symptoms began to appear that would worsen over time until the composer was completely caged in his head.
He said that he could create speech and music in thought, but he could not express it, either orally or in writing. At the time of the Bay Anecdote he could not sign autographs, he made many mistakes in writing, he could not play the piano or direct the orchestra, but he kept to the last day the maximum knowledge of music, the finest sensitivity to music; he even noticed the smallest adaptations to his compositions until the end.
Maurice Ravel Delouart was an extremely modern, forward-looking man, leftist, radical Dandy, a good friend of the female musicians of his time, probably homosexual or asexual. Because of insomnia, he got to know the night of Paris well, cabarets, jazz, new forms of dance and music, we can hear everything in his works. There are also lyrics and songs in Basque by Marie Delouart’s mother, in rhythms and melodies, something that is familiar to the Basques, especially in string quartets and piano concerts.
This inability to produce music and language continued until Ravel was completely isolated. The friend musician Helene Jourdan-Morhanger found her on the balcony of her house looking far away and, when asked what she was doing, she replied, sadly, “I am waiting.” He died shortly after.
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