Les Apaches
Les Apaches or Société des Apaches was a French group of artists around the composer Maurice Ravel .
Emergence
Around 1900 various painters, writers and other artists met regularly in Paris . Soon a permanent group was formed that met regularly on Saturdays in the apartment of the painter Paul Sordes . The group's name was derived from a newspaper seller who shouted the headline “Attention les apaches”. The group adopted the term “apaches”, which they understood to mean “hooligans”. The Apaches of Paris called out by the newsboy were residents of the Bastille , Belleville and Montmartre , the slums that organized themselves into gangs and made a name for themselves with robberies and at dance events.
With the approval of all members, the composer Maurice Ravel chose the main melody from the first movement of the “2. Symphony in B minor ”by Alexander Porfirjewitsch Borodin to the club anthem. The fictional member Gomez de Riquet can also be traced back to Ravel . According to his own account, he justified this by saying that "... if the circumstances so require, you could use a name without having to bother a colleague".
effect
According to an ondit , the writer Alexandre Bisson referred to this association of artists with the title of his comedy Les apaches .
Members
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literature
- Benjamin Ivry: Maurice Ravel. A life . Welcome Rain Publ., New York 2000, ISBN 1-56649-152-5 .
- Xavier Lacavalerie: Manuel de Falla . Actes Sud, Arles 2009, ISBN 978-2-7427-8360-1 .
Web links
- [1] SWR2 music lesson with Stephan Hoffmann, January 2018: Maurice Ravel "My only lover is music".