Reynaldo Hahn - Études latines (1900)

Reynaldo Hahn (August 9, 1874 – January 28, 1947) was a Venezuelan, naturalized French, composer, conductor, music critic, diarist, theater director, and salon singer. Best known as a composer of more than 100 songs, he wrote in the French classical tradition of the mélodie.
He was close friends with Marcel Proust and Sarah Bernhardt amongst many others.

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Études latines (1900)
10 Songs with lyrics by Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894)
Poèmes antiques, in Études latines, no. 12, Paris, Éd. Librairie Marc Ducloux, first published 1852

1. Lydie (0:00)
Dedication: à M. Massenet

2. Néère (2:31)
Dedication: à Frédéric de Madrazo

3. Salinum (5:57)
Dedication: à Marie-Louise Nordlinger

4. Thaliarque (8:08)
Dedication: à Monsieur Gabriel Fauré

5. Lydé (10:47)
Dedication: à Madame Jeanne Tripier-Gouzien

6. Vile Potabis (13:57)

7. Tyndaris (15:39)
Dedication: à Madame la Comtesse de Guerne, née Ségur (1859-1933)

8. Pholoé (17:25)

9. À Phidylé (18:59)
Dedication: à mon ami Marcel Proust

10. Phyllis (21:34)
Dedication: à Madame la Comtesse de Guerne (1859-1933)

Stephen Varcoe, baritone; Ian Bostridge, tenor; Graham Johnson, piano; Stephen Layton, conductor

Background of dedications:
1. Unclear if the wife of Jules Massenet, Nino Massenet is meant.
2. Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (9 February 1815 – 10 June 1894) was a famous Spanish painter who received the Legion of Honour in 1846. He was made a corresponding member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts on 10 December 1853, and in 1873, on the death of Schnorr, the painter, he was chosen foreign member.
3. Marie-Louise Nordlinger was the English cousin of Reynaldo Hahn. She was also very close friends with Marcel Proust who wrote in Dec. 1898 to Marie Nordlinger to thank her for the Christmas card she had sent him. In his meditative letter to Marie, Proust touched on topics that preoccupied him and were to form the major philosophical underpinnings of In Search of Lost Time: the soul and its material encasement in the body, the passage of time and through time, the slow, unconscious accumulation of memories, largely ignored by the superficial, egotistical, social self. As Proust sounds the depths of his being, he perceives only a faint echo indicating the unknown treasures that might lie buried beneath the sands of time. The scent of tea and mimosa furnishes the sesame that opens, at least briefly, the door to the treasure trove. He speaks first about Christmas cards and other symbols and why we need them.
4. Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers.
5. Jeanne Tripier-Gouzien. Could not find any info on her but she could be related to Armand Gouzien (1839-1892) composer, music critic and writer.
7 & 10. Marie-Thérèse de Ségur, Comtesse de Guerne (1859-1933) was a singer, well known socialite and close friends with Reynaldo Hahn, Marcel Proust and Jules Massenet. Her portrait was painted in 1898 by Ernest Hébert (Grenoble, 03–11–1817 - La Tronche, 05–11–1908).
9. Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was close friends with Reynaldo Hahn. He was a novelist, critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel In Search of Lost Time (À la Recherche du Temps Perdu; with the previous English title translation of Remembrance of Things Past), originally published in French in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.