Patrice Contamine de Latour
Appearance
Patrice Contamine de Latour | |
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Born | José Maria Vicente Ferrer Francisco de Paola Patricio Manuel Contamine 17 March 1867 Tarragona, Spain |
Died | 24 May 1926 Paris, France | (aged 59)
Occupation | Poet |
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.
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 with text by de Latour written under the pseudonym "Lord Cheminot",[2] and also composed the piano piece The Dreamy Fish to accompany a lost tale by de Latour.[3][4]
Latour died in Paris.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Revue internationale de musique française, Éditions Slatkine (1987), issues 22–24, p. 18, ISBN 9782852030343
- ^ a b 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.