That's Maurice Ravel [wiki], a French composer. Although you may not know him, I bet you can hum one of his most famous piece of music: Boléro [wiki].
Frogsmoke blog has this very neat article about many different versions of the iconic music, from the Mexican version, the turbo version, to the one played by Frank Zappa.
http://frogsmoke.com/bolero/ [many embedded YouTube clips] - via Presurfer