Ernest Hemingway, Nobel prize in Literature who liberated the bar of hotel Ritz from the Nazis in 1944, died today in 1961.

For details about Hemingway in Paris, see this previous post in this blog.

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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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born 21 July 1899. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. A foreign correspondant for American papers, he lived in Paris, near place de la Contrescarpe, for one and a half year with his first wife Hadley (plaque). Details in wikipedia. His apprenticeship as a young writer in Paris during the 1920s are the subject of his memoirs A Moveable Feast, published posthumously; some of the later prominent people who are featured in his memoirs include Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, Hilaire Belloc, Pascin, John Dos Passos, Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce and Gertrude Stein. He stayed in Paris an number of times thereafter. Most notably, he was present at the Liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944.

Ernest Hemingway | Ernest Hemingway aboard his yacht around 1950 (wikimedia.org)

Plaque: 74, rue du Cardinal Lemoine
De janvier 1922 à août 1923 a vécu, au troisième étage de cet immeuble, avec Hadley, son épouse, l'écrivain américain Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961. Le quartier, qu'il aimait par dessus tout, fut le véritable lieu de naissance de son œuvre et du style dépouillé qui la caractérise. Cet Américain à Paris entretenait desrelations familières avec ses voisins, notamment le patron du bal-musette attenant. "…Tel était le Paris de notre jeunesse, au temps où nous étions très pauvres et très heureux." Ernest Hemingway (Paris est une fête). Association la Mémoire des Lieux	The American writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), and his wife Hadley, lived on the third floor of this building from January 1922 to August 1923. The neighborhood, which he loved above all, was the real birthplace of his work and its so characteristically plain style. This American in Paris maintained familiar relations with its neighbors, including the owner of adjoining bal-musette. "... This was the Paris of our youth, at a time when we were very poor and very happy." Ernest Hemingway (A Moveable Feast). Association La Mémoire des lieux.

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Apelles Fenosa

Appel·les Fenosa i Florensa est un sculpteur espagnol, est né à Barcelone le 16 mai 1899. A partir de 1942, il a vécu et travaillé boulevard Saint-Jacques. Deux plaques rappellent son souvenir et son œuvre. Il est mort à Paris le 25 mars 1988. The Catalan Spanish sculptor Apel·les Fenosa i Florensa was born in Barcelona, 16 Mai 1899. From 1942 he lived and worked boulevard Saint-Jacques. Two commemorative plaques bear his name in Paris, where he died 25 March 1988.	Catalogue raisonné, mchampetier.com
Plaque: boulevard Saint Jacques Ici Apelles Fenosa a sculpté son œuvre de 1942 à 1988 Here Apelles Fenosa sculpted his works, 1942-1988.
Plaque: 9, rue Sainte Croix de la Bretonnerie Saint Georges terrassant le dragon, 1977, relief d'Appel.les Fenosa, 1899-1988, don de l'artiste à l'université Paris-Sorbonne Saint George and the Dragon, 1977, relief by Appel.les Fenosa, 1899-1988, given by the artist to the Paris- Sorbonne university.

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