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This composer’s five attempts to win the Prix (“pree”) de Rome caused a scandal which forced (-5[1])Théodore Dubois to retire. Inspired by Aloysius Bertrand’s prose poems, this composer included the movements “Ondine” (“on-DEEN”) and “Scarbo” in (10[1])a piano suite intended to surpass the difficulty of Balakirev’s Islamey. Ida Rubinstein commissioned a piece by this composer, (-5[1])which uses the melody (read slowly) “high C (pause) B C D C B A C.” This composer of the suite Gaspar de la Nuit (10[1])(“nwee”) wrote (10[1])a repetitive, triplet-heavy ostinato for snare drums in a piece which insistently repeats its melody until it reaches (10[1])a fortissimo finish. For 10 points, which (10[1])20th-century French (10[1])composer wrote Boléro? ■END■

ANSWER: Maurice Ravel [or Joseph Maurice Ravel]
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