Émile Decombes took over as Ravel's piano teacher in 1889; in the same year Ravel gave his earliest public performance.Lesure and Nectoux, p. 9 Aged fourteen, he took part in a concert at the Salle Érard along with other pupils of Decombes, including Reynaldo Hahn and Alfred Cortot.Orenstein (1991), p. 11
