who was born first, Sergei Prokofiev or Maurice Ravel ?
Maurice Ravel Joseph Maurice Ravel (] ; 7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer.
Circus Polka Igor Stravinsky and George Balanchine first met in 1925, as Balanchine, who just had started working for Sergei Diaghilev's "Ballets Russes", choreographed the ballet version of Stravinsky's "Le chant du rossignol". This was the start of a long friendship and many years of collaboration, which continued after both emigrated to the United States in the 1930s.