Songs - Ramiro Arrue - Lot 322

Songs - Ramiro Arrue [ROLAND (Alfred) - CHANTEURS MONTAGNARDS] General album (from 1835 to 1848) of the opinions of the European press on the mission of the 40 French mountain singers who were students at the Bagnères conservatory (Les 40 Chanteurs Montagnards). Large folio album containing numerous French and foreign press articles on the concerts and various performances of this vocal group. Paper-covered boards, small tears and rubbing, red leather label on upper cover. Exceptional testimony. Unicum. Enclosed: - POUEIGH (Jean Marie Octave Géraud): Chansons populaires des Pyrénées françaises. Traditions, Moeurs, Usages. Tome Premier. Illustrations by Ramiro ARRUE. Paris, Bossuet, 1933. Large in-8: 7f. 271pp. one folding map out of text, music notated in text. Red calf, cold decoration with izards (on lower cover) and gilt sun (on upper cover), gilt title on spine, gilt head, protective slipcase. A fine copy. Text, music and translation. An important work of which only the first volume has been published. Original and most complete edition, reissued in 1933 by Bossuet with few additions to the first 2 chapters, but without the important chapters 3 and 4 on love and marriage, which make up almost half the work. POUEIGH was born in Toulouse on February 24, 1876, and died in Olivet (Loiret) on October 14, 1958. Composer, musicologist, critic, folklorist and student at the Schola Cantorum in Paris, he composed chamber music, including Rhapsodie des Pyrénées (1925) and Suite montagnarde (1926). His opera Perkain, based on a Basque legend by Pierre Harispe, was performed at the Opéra de Bordeaux in 1931, with sets and costumes by Ramiro Arrue, the same Arrue who fully illustrated his book "Le Folklore des Pays d'Oc" and the second edition of our "Chansons Populaires" (color cover, title and end-of-chapter vignette). For the VIIIe Congrès d'Études Basques in 1954, he publishes "De la musique chez les Basques. Their popular songs and dances". As a critic, he had a lively controversy in 1917 with Erik Satie, who replied "Monsieur et cher ami, vous n'êtes qu'un cul, pire, un cul sans musique" (source Wikipedia). - MENVIELLE (B.) abbé: Alfred Roland et les Quarante Chanteurs Montagnards. Toulouse, Privat, 1901. Large in-8: XVI, 394pp; portrait and illustrations in text and full-page. ½ olive cloth à la Bradel, black title-piece on spine. - MENVIELLE (B.) abbé : Alfred ROLAND et les 40 Chanteurs Montagnards. 2nd revised and expanded edition. Bagnères, Péré, 1933. In-8 paperback: 252pp, 1f; 2 plates out of text. This registration inspector, parachuted into Bagnères de Bigorre in 1832, was a pioneer of the genre. Not only did he compose a wealth of songs on the subject of the Pyrenees alone, but he also founded a singing school to train his performers. And so, for 16 years, Roland toured France, Europe and the Middle East with his 40 mountain singers, just as our Basque and Corsican choirs do today with such success. - DULAC (Édouard): La prodigieuse odyssée d'Alfred Roland et des quarante chanteurs montagnards. Pau, éditions Pau-Pyrénées, sd. Booklet, in-8.