Patrice Contamine de Latour
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.
Patrice Contamine de Latour | |
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 De Latour, from La presse française au vingtième siècle, in 1901 | |
| Born | José Maria Vicente Ferrer Francisco de Paola Patricio Manuel Contamine 17 March 1867 Tarragona, Spain |
| Died | 24 May 1926 (aged 59) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Poet |
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.
References
- Revue internationale de musique française, Éditions Slatkine (1987), issues 22–24, p. 18, ISBN 9782852030343
- Orledge, Robert (1990-10-26). Satie the Composer. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521350372.
- Steven Moore Whiting, Satie the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert Hall, Clarendon Press 1999, p. 259
- Guerrieri, Matthew (10 Mar 2017). "Satie and Latour, a Parisian friendship of free spirits". The Boston Globe.
- Robert Orledge, Satie the Composer, Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 284–285.
- 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.