Patrice_Contamine_de_Latour

Patrice Contamine de Latour

Patrice Contamine de Latour

Spanish poet, emigrant to France


Patrice Contamine de Latour (17 March 1867 – 24 May 1926),[1] born in Tarragona as José Maria Vicente Ferrer Francisco de Paola Patricio Manuel Contamine and published as J. P. Contamine de Latour,[2] was a Spanish poet who lived in Paris.

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He was a friend of composer Erik Satie, whose famous piano suites Sarabandes (1887) and Gymnopédies (1888) were inspired by his poetry. Satie wrote a short comic opera, Geneviève de Brabant, with text by de Latour written under the pseudonym "Lord Cheminot",[2] and also composed the piano piece Le poisson rêveur (The Dreamy Fish) to accompany a lost tale by de Latour.[3][4] Satie's Petit prélude de 'La Mort de Monsieur Mouche' was written as an introduction to a play by Latour[5] and Satie's unfinished tone poem Le Bœuf Angora was based on Latour's works.[6]

Latour died in Paris.[citation needed]


References

  1. Revue internationale de musique française, Éditions Slatkine [fr] (1987), issues 22–24, p. 18, ISBN 9782852030343
  2. Orledge, Robert (1990-10-26). Satie the Composer. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521350372.
  3. Steven Moore Whiting, Satie the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert Hall, Clarendon Press 1999, p. 259
  4. Robert Orledge, Satie the Composer, Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 284–285.
  5. Patrick Gowers and Nigel Wilkins, "Erik Satie", The New Grove: Twentieth-Century French Masters, Macmillan Publishers Limited, London, 1986, p. 139. Reprinted from The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1980 edition.

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