Fedor Chalipin, most famous Russian basso singer, died today in 1938 in Paris

Fédor Chaliapine (Фёдор Иванович Шаляпин) est un chanteur russe d'opéra, né le 13 février 1873 à Kazan et mort le 12 avril 1938 à Paris, est un chanteur d'opéra (basse) et acteur russe. Sa carrière internationale débute en 1901 à la Scala de Milan, puis au Metropolitan Opera de New York en 1907. En 1922 il émigre à Paris. Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin (Фёдор Иванович Шаляпин) was a Russian opera singer, born 13 Feb 1873 in Kazan. Possessing a deep and expressive bass voice, he enjoyed an important international career at major opera houses and is often credited with establishing the tradition of naturalistic acting in his chosen art form. He did not return to Russia after 1921. He initially moved to Finland and later lived in France. Cosmopolitan Paris, with its significant Russian émigré population, became his base, and ultimately, the city of his death on 12 April 1938. He was renowned for his larger-than-life carousing during this period, but he never sacrificed his dedication to his art. Chaliapin's attachment to Paris did not prevent him from pursuing an international operatic and concert career in England, the United States, and further afield.

Fédor Chaliapine

Plaque: 22, avenue d'Eylau
Feodor Chaliapine artiste lyrique russe 1873-1938 vécut et mourut dans cette maison.	Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin, Russian opera singer, 1873-1938, lived and died in this house.

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Richard Wagner, German composer, was born today in 1813

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (né le 22 mai 1813, Leipzig - mort le 13 février 1883, Venise) est un compositeur allemand, qui fit à Paris plusieurs séjours, comméorés par trois plaques. Wagner doit son importance dans l'histoire de la musique occidentale à ses opéras, en particulier L'Anneau du Nibelung, festival scénique en un prologue et trois journées dont il a écrit lui-même les poèmes et dont la conception bouscule délibérément les habitudes de l'époque pour aller, selon ses propres termes, vers un « art total » : spectacle complet, mélodie continue et emploi du leitmotiv. Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, and theatre director, who made several stays in Paris, as three plaques remind the passer-by. He is  primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as he later called them). Wagner's compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex texture, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs: musical themes associated with individual characters, places, ideas or plot elements.

Richard Wagner

Plaque: 3, rue d'Aumale
Richard Wagner, 1813-1883, vécut dans cet immeuble d'octobre 1860 à juillet 1861. Les Cercles Wagner de France	Richard Wagner, 1813-1883, lived here from October 1860 to July 1861. Les Cercles Wagner de France
Plaque: 19, quai Voltaire
Ici Charles Baudelaire Jean Sibelius Richard Wagner Oscar Wilde ont honoré Paris de leur séjour	Charles Baudelaire Jean Sibelius Richard Wagner Oscar Wilde stayed here while in Paris
Plaque: 14, rue Jacob
Richard Wagner, 1813-1883, a vécu ici du 30 octobre 1841 au 7 avril 1842. "Les amis de Richard Wagner", Fondation L.Molina	Richard Wagner, 1813-1883, lived here from 30 October 1841 through 7 April 1842. "The Friends of Richard Wagner", L.Molina foundation.
Plaque: 58, rue de Courcelles
Lucienne Bréval, de l'Opéra, 1869-1935. L'immortelle interprète et créatrice des œuvres de Gluck, Wagner, Massenet, Vincent d'Indy, Gabriel Fauré, habita cet immeuble de 1919 à 1935.	Opera singer Lucienne Bréval, 1869-1935. The immortal interpreter et creator of works by Gluck, Wagner, Massenet, Vincent d'Indy, Gabriel Fauré, lived here , 1919 - 1935.

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Maurice Ravel, French composer, was born today, 140 years ago

Maurice Ravel est un compositeur français de l’époque moderne, né à Ciboure le 7 mars 1875 et mort à Paris le 28 décembre 1937.   Avec son aîné Claude Debussy, Ravel fut la figure la plus influente de la musique française de son époque et le principal représentant du courant dit impressionniste au début du XXe siècle. Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer known especially for his melodies, masterful orchestration, richly evocative harmonies and inventive instrumental textures and effects. Along with Claude Debussy, he was one of the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist music. Much of his piano music, chamber music, vocal music and orchestral music is part of the standard concert repertoire.

Maurice Ravel, 1925

Plaque: 4, avenue Carnot
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937 vécut dans cet immeuble de 1908 à 1917. C'est ici qu'il composa Daphnis et Chloe	Maurice Ravel, 1875-1937, lived here from 1908 to 1917. Thisis where he composed Daphnis et Chloe

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Frederic Chopin, Polish composer

Frédéric (Fryderyk) Chopin est né le 1er mars 1810 à Zelazowa Wola, dans le Duché de Varsovie, actuelle Pologne. A partir de 1831 il vit à Paris, où il meurt le 17 octobre 1849. Quatre plaques commémoratives portent son souvenir sur les murs de Paris. Frédéric (Fryderyk) Chopin was born 1st March 1810, in Zelazowa Wola, Duchy of Warsaw, now in Poland. From 1831 he lived in Paris, where he died on 17 Octobre 1849. No less than 4 plaques bear his name in Paris.

Frédéric Chopin | Portrait by Delacroix, ca. 1838

Plaque: 9, squ d'Orléans
Frédéeic Chopin habita cette maison de 1842 à 1849	Frederic Chopin lived here, 1842-1849
Plaque: 8, rue de l'Ancienne comédie
Ici se trouvait le restaurant de l'Agneau, qui compta parmi ses hôtes Victor Hugo, George Sand, Henri Murger, Frédéric Chopin, Théophile Gautier	Here was the restaurant "L'Agneau" (The Lamb). Its patrons included Victor Hugo, George Sand, Henri Murger, Frederic Chopin, Theophile Gautier
Plaque: 27, boulevard Poissonnière
Frédéric Chopin habita cette maison, 1831-1832.	Frederic Chopin lived here, 1831-1832.
Plaque: 12, place Vendôme
Frédéric François Chopin, né à Zelazowa Wola (Pologne) le 22 février 1810, est mort dans cette maison le 17 octobre 1849.	Frederic François Chopin, born in Zelazowa Wola (Poland), 22 February 1810, died in this house, 17 October 1849.

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Dalida, pop singer

Dalida, née Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, née le 17 janvier 1933 au Caire, en Égypte, et morte le 3 mai 1987 à Paris, est une chanteuse et actrice. D’une famille d'origine italienne, elle a surtout chanté et joué en français mais aussi en italien, en arabe égyptien, en anglais, en espagnol et en allemand. Dalida (17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), born with the Italian name Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, was a famous singer and actress born in Egypt to Italian (Calabrian) parents but naturalised French with the name Yolanda Gigliotti. She spent her early years in Egypt amongst the Italian Egyptian community, but she lived most of her adult life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc. Dalida performed and recorded in more than 10 languages including: French, Arabic, Italian, Greek, German, English, Japanese, Hebrew, Dutch and Spanish.   Renowned for the changes she wrought to the French and global music industry with her powerful and colourful performances, she is today still remembered by aficionados throughout the world. A 30-year career (she debuted in 1956 and recorded her last album in 1986, a few months before her death) and her death led to an iconic image as a tragic diva and renowned singer.

Dalida | Buste par Aslan, place Dalida à Montmartre.

Plaque: rue d'Orchampt
Dalida a vécu dans cette maison de 1962 à 1987. Ses amis montmartrois ne l'oublieront jamais.	Dalida lived in this house, 1962-1987. Her friends in Montmatre will never forget her.

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Maurice Jaubert, film music composer

Maurice Jaubert est un compositeur français né à Nice le 3 janvier 1900, mort le 19 juin 1940 au front, à l'hôpital de Baccarat. Maurice Jaubert est particilièrement connu pour ses nombreuses partitions pour le cinéma, Zéro de conduite et L'Atalante de Jean Vigo, Quatorze Juillet de René Clair, Un carnet de bal et La Fin du jour de Julien Duvivier, Drôle de drame, Hôtel du Nord, Le Quai des brumes et Le jour se lève de Marcel Carné. Maurice Jaubert (born Nice 3 January 1900 - wounded in combat at Azerailles near Baccarat, where he died 19 June 1940) was a French composer of incidental music for stage and film music, famous for his collaborations with the masters of poetic realism Jean Vigo, René Clair, Julien Duvivier and Marcel Carné. He also had a long collaboration with Jean Giraudoux.   From 1931-5 he was music director of the Pathé-Nathan studios, where he conducted not only his own scores but those of Arthur Honegger and Darius Milhaud. He makes a cameo appearance as a conductor in Kurt Bernhardt's La Nuit de décembre (1939). As a journalist he championed many composers, including Kurt Weill.   In Vigo's Zéro de conduite he played recorded sounds backwards to accompany a slow motion sequence, anticipating a favorite technique of musique concrète.   French film director François Truffaut used Jaubert's music in his films in the late 1970s.

Maurice Jaubert

Plaque: 98, rue du Cherche Midi
Maurice Jaubert compositeur habita cette maison de 1931 à 1939 Mort pour la France le 19 juin 1940	Maurice Jaubert, composer; lived here from 1931 to 1939. Mort pour la France, 19 June 1940.

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Tcherepnin, Russian-born composer

Alexandre Nikolaïevitch Tcherepnine (Александр Николаевич Черепнин) est un compositeur et pianiste russe, né à Saint-Pétersbourg le 2 janvier 1899 et décédé à Paris le 29 septembre 1977. Il émigra de Russie avec sa famille en 1917. De 1921 à 1948, il vécut à Paris entre ses tournées et ses séjours principalement en Chine, au Japon et aux Etats-Unis.  Plusieurs de ses oeuvres furent créées aux Etats-Unis, dont il avait acquis la nationalité en 1958. Il est mort à Paris en 1977. Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin (Александр Николаевич Черепнин) (21 January 1899 – 29 September 1977) was a Russian-born composer and pianist. After the 1917 Russian Revolution, the family fled St. Petersburg to Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1921 , they settled in Paris, where Alexander completed his musical studies at the Paris Conservatory, and became associated with composers Martinu, Mihalovici and Beck. From Paris Tcherepnin launched an international career as a pianist and composer. He began yearly visits to the United States in 1926 and later went to the Far East, making several extended visits to China and Japan between 1934 and 1937. While in China, he met Lee Hsien Ming, a young pianist whom he married in Europe. World War II, during which he lived in France, virtually stopped his musical activities but the immediate postwar period brought a resurgence of creative energies. In 1948, he went to the United States, settling in Chicago in 1950 and in 1958 acquiring United States citizenship. He and his wife taught at DePaul University in Chicago, where the Chicago Symphony Orchestra premiered his second symphony with Rafael Kubelík conducting. From 1964 he divided his time between the United States, mainly New York, and Europe. He was a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity. He died in Paris in 1977.

Alexandre Tcherepnine

Plaque: 2, rue de Furstenberg
Le compositeur Alexandre Tcherepnine (1899-1977) habita cette maison. 1983.	Alexandr Tcherepnin (1899-1977), composer, lived in this house. 1983

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Anna Maria Mozart

La mère de Mozart est décédée le 3 juillet 1778, à Paris où elle accompagnait son fils dans une tournée qui les avait déjà menés à Augsbourg et Mannheim. Anna Maria Pertl était née née le 25 décembre 1720 à Sankt Gilgen, et avait épousé Léopold Mozart en 1747. Une plaque a posée en 1991 par la Grande Loge  nationale française sur la maison où elle a séjourné et est morte d'une maladie inconnue. Mozart's mother died in Paris, July 3rd 1778. She was born Anna Marie Pertl in Sant Gilgen, on Christmas day 1720, and had maried Leopold Mozart in 1747. She and her son were in Paris on a tour during which they had visited Augsburg and Mannheim. The Grande Loge Nationale Française laid a plaque where she had lived, and died of an unknown illness.

Anna Maria Mozart | Portrait par Rosa Hagenauer-Barducci (18e s.)

Plaque: 2, rue du Jour. Eglise Saint Eustache
Memoriae D.Annae Mariae Mozart quae mater viri fuit celeberrimi [sic] Wolfgangi Amadei Mozart Nata est clarissima femina in vico Sancti Aegidii principatus Salisburgensis Austriae in Natali Domini MDCCXX Obiit Lutetiae Parisiorum tertio nonas julias MDCCLXXVIII   Dedicavit civitas Salisburgensis A.D. MCMLIII
Plaque: 8, rue du Sentier
W. A. Mozart et sa mère Maria séjournèrent ici en 1778. Celle-ci y mourut le 3 juillet. G.L.N.F. 1991	W. A. Mozart and his mother Maria lived here in 1778. She died here on July 3rd. G.L.N.F. 1991

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Ignacy Paderewski

Ignacy Jan Paderewski, parfois francisé en Ignace Paderewski, né le 6 novembre 1860 en Podolie et mort le 29 juin 1941 à New York, est un pianiste, compositeur, homme politique et diplomate polonais. Il a vécu 17 ans à Paris, où une plaque commémore son séjour. Ignacy Jan Paderewski GBE (18 November 1860 – 29 June 1941) was a Polish pianist, composer, diplomat, politician, and the second Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland. He lived for 17 years in Paris, where a plaque bears his name.

Plaque: 94, avenue Victor Hugo
Ignacy Jan Paderewski, 1860-1941, pianiste, compositeur et homme d'Etat polonais, habita cet immeuble de 1889 à 1906.	Ignacy Jan Paderewski, 1860-1941, Polish pianist, composer et statesman, lived here between 1889 and 1906.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, né le 28 juin 1712 à Genève et mort le 2 juillet 1778 à Ermenonville, est un écrivain, philosophe et musicien genevois de langue française. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism of French expression. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought.

Plaque: 52, rue Jean Jacques Rousseau
Ici, dans cette rue jadis nommée rue Plâtrière, s'élevait la maison qui fut le dernier domicile parisien de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, de 1774-1778.

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (né le 22 mai 1813, Leipzig - mort le 13 février 1883, Venise) est un compositeur allemand, qui fit à Paris plusieurs séjours, commémorés par trois plaques. Wagner doit son importance dans l'histoire de la musique occidentale à ses opéras, en particulier L'Anneau du Nibelung, festival scénique en un prologue et trois journées dont il a écrit lui-même les poèmes et dont la conception bouscule délibérément les habitudes de l'époque pour aller, selon ses propres termes, vers un « art total » : spectacle complet, mélodie continue et emploi du leitmotiv. Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, and theatre director, who made several stays in Paris, as three plaques remind the passer- by. He is primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as he later called them). Wagner's compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex texture, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs: musical themes associated with individual characters, places, ideas or plot elements.

Plaque: 19, quai Voltaire
Ici Charles Baudelaire Jean Sibelius Richard Wagner Oscar Wilde ont honoré Paris de leur séjour	Charles Baudelaire Jean Sibelius Richard Wagner Oscar Wilde stayed here while in Paris
Plaque: 14, rue Jacob
Richard Wagner, 1813-1883, a vécu ici du 30 octobre 1841 au 7 avril 1842. "Les amis de Richard Wagner", Fondation L.Molina	Richard Wagner, 1813-1883, lived here from 30 October 1841 through 7 April 1842. "The Friends of Richard Wagner", L.Molina foundation.
Plaque: 58, rue de Courcelles
Lucienne Bréval, de l'Opéra, 1869-1935. L'immortelle interprète et créatrice des œuvres de Gluck, Wagner, Massenet, Vincent d'Indy, Gabriel Fauré, habita cet immeuble de 1919 à 1935.	Opera singer Lucienne Bréval, 1869-1935. The immortal interpreter et creator of works by Gluck, Wagner, Massenet, Vincent d'Indy, Gabriel Fauré, lived here , 1919 - 1935.
Plaque: 3, rue d'Aumale
Richard Wagner, 1813-1883, vécut dans cet immeuble d'octobre 1860 à juillet 1861. Les Cercles Wagner de France	Richard Wagner, 1813-1883, lived here from October 1860 to July 1861. Les Cercles Wagner de France

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Erik Satie

Alfred Eric Leslie Satie, dit Erik Satie, né à Honfleur le 17 mai 1866 et mort à Paris le 1er juillet 1925, est un compositeur et pianiste français. (Wikipédia) Deux plaques commémorent sa vie et son travail à Paris. Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 1866 – Paris, 1 July 1925; signed his name Erik Satie after 1884) was a French composer and pianist. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde. His work was a precursor to later artistic movements such as minimalism, repetitive music, and the Theatre of the Absurd. An eccentric, Satie was introduced as a "gymnopedist" in 1887, shortly before writing his most famous compositions, the Gymnopédies. Later, he also referred to himself as a "phonometrician" (meaning "someone who measures sounds") preferring this designation to that of a "musician", after having been called "a clumsy but subtle technician" in a book on contemporary French composers published in 1911.[2] In addition to his body of music, Satie also left a remarkable set of writings, having contributed work for a range of publications, from the dadaist 391 to the American culture chronicle Vanity Fair. Although in later life he prided himself on always publishing his work under his own name, in the late nineteenth century he appears to have used pseudonyms such as Virginie Lebeau and François de Paule in some of his published writings. (Wikipedia)
Plaque: 6, rue Cortot Erik Satie compositeur de musique a vécu dans cette maison de 1890 à 1898 Erik Satie, composer, lived in this house 1890-1898
Plaque: 29, rue Campagne Première Dans l'effervescence créatrice des années 1920 L'hôtel Istria accueillit entre autres artistes Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Moïse Kisling, peintres; Man Ray, photographe; Kiki de Montparnasse, modèle et égérie; Eric Satie, compositeur; Rainer-Maria Rilke, Tristan Tzara, Vladimir Maïakovski, poètes; et Louis Aragon qui y rejoignait Elsa Triolet. "Ne s'éteint que ce qui brilla... Lorsque tu descendais de l'hôtel Istria Tout était différent rue Campagne Première, En mil neuf cent vingt neuf, vers l'heure de midi...", Louis Aragon (Il ne m'est Paris que d'Elsa). Association La Mémoire des Lieux In the roaring 1920s this hotel Istria hosted numerous artists including Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Moïse Kisling, painters; Man Ray, photographer; Kiki de Montparnasse, model and égérie; Eric Satie, composer; Rainer-Maria Rilke, Tristan Tzara, Vladimir Maïakovski, poets; and Louis Aragon who joined Elsa Triolet. "Only what has been bright can fade away… When you used to come to hôtel Istria every thing looked different in street Campagne Première, in nineteen hundred and twenty nine, around noon time…", Louis Aragon (Il ne m'est Paris que d'Elsa). The Memory of Places Society

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Chaliapine

Le 13 février 1873, nait à Kazan Fédor Ivanovitch Chaliapine (Фёдор Иванович Шаляпин). Il passe une partie de sa vie à Paris, où il possède un logement. C'est là qu'il mourra d'une leucémie le 12 avril 1938.

On February 13th, 1873, Feodor Chaliapin, probably the most famous opera singer of the early 20th century, was born in Kazan. He made frequest visits to Paris, where he owned a home. That is where he died on April 12th, 1938.

Plaque, 22, avenue d'Eylau, 75016 Paris

Feodor Chaliapine artiste lyrique russe 1873-1938 vécut et mourut dans cette maison.

Chaliapine, la plus grande basse slave de son temps, a marqué ses contemporains par ses interprétations dans les opéras de ses compatriotes Moussorgski (Boris Godounov, rôle titre) et Rimski-Korsakov (Salieri, dans Mozart et Salieri) parmi bien d'autres. Au cinéma, il a incarné Don Quichotte, dans le film de Pabst, en 1933.

Autorisé à quitter l'URSS le 31 mars 1922 pour une tournée à l'étranger, il choisit alors de ne pas retourner en URSS. Il vit dès lors notamment, en France, à Paris et Saint-Jean-de-Luz où il possède une villa. C'est dans son domicile parisien du 22, avenue d'Eylau que la leucémie l'emporte le 12 avril 1938.
Ses restes reposaient au cimetière des Batignolles jusqu'en 1984, année où ils furent transférés au cimetière de Novodevitchi de Moscou.


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