Ernest Cabaner
Ernest Cabaner (born October 12, 1833 as Jean de Cabanes in Perpignan , † August 3, 1881 in Paris ) was a French composer , pianist and poet .
The Cabaner, originally from the Pyrenees, came to Paris in 1850 and moved into an apartment at 58 rue de La Rochefoucauld. He earned his living as a pianist and performed in a vaudeville theater on avenue de la Motte Piquet for five francs a day . He also frequented Café Guerbois , where he met artists such as Paul Cézanne , Édouard Manet , Camille Pissarro and Pierre-Auguste Renoir .
After the Franco-Prussian War , Cabaner met the composers Emmanuel Chabrier , Augusta Holmès and François Coppée , the poets Jean Richepin , Germain Nouveau , Albert Mérat and Charles in the Nina de Villard literary salon on rue Chaptal and in the artists' meeting place Café de la Nouvelle Athènes Cros , Paul Verlaine , Paul Alexis , Arthur Rimbaud , Léon Valade and Raoul Ponchon as well as the painters he was friends with. Cabaner worked as a barman at the Hôtel d 'Étrangers on Boulevard Saint-Michel in the Latin Quarter , where he made a room under the roof, on the third floor, available to the group of poets founded by Cros, Cercle des poètes Zutiques . In the winter of 1871/72, Cabaner met here alongside Cros, Rimbaud, Verlaine and the photographer Étienne Carjat . In this circle, poems were recited, sung and played the piano, but absinthe , hashish and opium were also consumed extensively . The album Zutique , a collection of 24 mostly crude and obscene parody verses , was created as a joint project . Cabaner's contribution to the album Zutique was the poem A Paris que fais-tu, dedicated to Rimbaud . The only 17-year-old Rimbaud lived temporarily with Cabaner during this time and slept with him on the sofa.
As a fan of chromatics , Cabaner, who also worked as a music teacher, further developed a method in which he assigned a color to each tone . He marked the tone A with black, the tone E white, the tone I red, the tone U green and the tone O blue. Using this method, he also taught Rimbaud to play the piano. Both artists recorded this period in their works. Rimbaud described the method of learning with colors in his poem Voyelles, and Cabaner records this Le chromatisme musical ou audition colorée in his Le Sonnet des Sept Nombres .
Ernest Cabaner has been described as a member of the Parisian bohemian by many of his contemporaries in their works. Paul Verlaine described Cabaner as Jesus Christ after three years of absinthe . George Moore describes in his works Confessions of Young Man and Memoirs of My Dead Life as well as Émile Zola in L'Assommoir the decadent way of life of the artist. This included, for example, his diet consisting only of cheese rolls and milk, which Cabaner also often ate on the street. Chabrier and his circle writer Rollo Myers described Cabaner's colorful and complex personality as strange and eccentric .
The unhealthy lifestyle led to a general physical weakness and at the end of the 1870s the artist also suffered from tuberculosis. In 1880 Cabaner had himself portrayed by Édouard Manet and had to be admitted to a sanatorium a few days later. On May 15, 1881, the Friends of Cabaners held an auction of donated works at the Hôtel Drouot auction house in order to cover the treatment costs. On this occasion Manet donated the painting The Suicide ( Bührle Collection ).
Work (selection)
- L'Archet , text by Charles Cros, music by Cabaner
- Le Hareng saur , text by Charles Cros, music by Cabaner
- Mazurka à Nina de Villard , music by Cabaner
- Le Pâté , text & music by Cabaner
- A Paris que fais-tu , text by Cabaner (dedicated to Rimbaud)
- Souffles de l'Air , text & music by Cabaner
- Sonnet des Sept Nombres , text by Cabaner
- Le Pâté Del Fragson , text by Cabaner
- Le Sonnet des Sept Nombres , text & music by Ernest Cabaner
literature
- Arthur Rimbaud: The Drunk Ship. Poems. Early prose. Album Zutique . Berlin 1980, ISBN 3882213116
- Émile Zola: L'Assommoir / The Blackjack . 1877
- George Moore: Confessions of Young Man . 1886
- George Moore: Memoirs of My Dead Life . 1906
- Willi Schuh: Ernest Cabaner - Musicien et poète maudit . In: Wolfgang Burde: Aspects of New Music . Kassel 1968
- Rollo Myers: Chabrier and his circle . London 1969
- Jean-Jacques Lefrère, M. Pakenham: Cabaner, poète au piano . Charleville-Mézières 1994
- Thomas Leflot: Édouard Manet et la musique . Paris 2001
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cabaner, Ernest |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | de Cabanes, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer, pianist and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Perpignan |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 3, 1881 |
| Place of death | Paris |