Maurice Delage

Maurice Charles Delage (13 November 1879 – 19 or 21 September 1961) was a French composer and pianist.

He also served for a time in the French army, before embarking on a music career in his twenties.

[2] A student of Ravel, who proclaimed him one of the supreme French composers of his day,[3] and member of Les Apaches, he was influenced by travels to India and Japan in 1912, when he accompanied his father on a business trip.

[4] Ravel's "La vallée des cloches" from Miroirs was dedicated to Delage.

[5] His Ragamalika (1912–1922), based on the classical music of India, is significant in that it calls for prepared piano; the score specifies that a piece of cardboard be placed under the strings of the B-flat in the second line of the bass clef to dampen the sound, imitating the sound of an Indian drum.