Misplaced Pages

#427572

13-654: Félicien David was born in Cadenet , and began to study music at the age of five under his father, whose death when the boy was six left him an impoverished orphan. His good voice enabled him to study as a choirboy at the Cathedral of Saint-Sauveur in Aix-en-Provence , which he left at the age of 15 with a sound knowledge of music, and a scholarship which enabled him to study literature at a Jesuit college. However, after three years, he abandoned these studies to pursue

26-472: A musical career. He first obtained a position in the orchestra of the theatre at Aix. In 1829, he became maître de chapelle at Saint-Sauveur , but realised that to complete his musical education he needed to study at Paris. An allowance of 50 francs per month from a rich uncle made this possible. In Paris in 1830 he convinced Luigi Cherubini , the director of the Conservatoire , to enroll him as

39-533: A number of hymns. After the suppression of the movement in 1832, David joined with a number of adepts who visited the Middle East. This also proved a source of strong inspiration, leading eventually to his greatest success, the symphonic ode Le désert of 1844. Returning to Paris in 1833, he wrote a number of romances , and instrumental music including three symphonies (in F major, E ♭ major and C minor, composed in 1837, 1838 and 1849); by 1838/39 he

52-633: A number of operas, of which the most notable are Christophe Colomb (1847), La perle du Brésil (1851), Herculanum (1859), and Lalla-Roukh (1862). Amongst his oratorios are Moïse au Sinaï ('Moses on Sinai') (1846), and Eden (1848). David became a member of the Légion d'honneur in 1862 and was given a civil pension. On the death of Berlioz in 1869, he took his place in the Institut de France . He died in Le Pecq (now Saint-Germain-en-Laye ) in

65-592: A pupil: despite his reservations, Cherubini recognised the talent shown by David's choral setting of Beatus vir . Despite the sudden withdrawal of his uncle's subsidy, David's studies, with Fétis and others, continued successfully. On leaving the Conservatoire, David was caught up in the Saint-Simonian movement, for which he became a great enthusiast. The Saint-Simonians held music to be an important art, and David wrote much music for them, including

78-433: Is 57 km southeast of Avignon , 59 km north of Marseille and 616 km as the crow flies from Paris . It is accessed from Lourmarin to the north by county ( départemental ) main road 943. Secondary county road 973 crosses the south of the village on an east–west axis and allows it to connect to Lauris to the west, and runs east to Villelaure and Pertuis . County roads 43, 59, 118 and 139 also pass through

91-680: Is twinned with: Natives include the Orientalist composer Félicien-César David , the carpenter and Jacobin Joseph Sec , and Saint Elzéar of Sabran , Baron of Ansouis and Count of Ariano. Pertuis Pertuis ( French pronunciation: [pɛʁtɥi] ; Occitan : Pertús ) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France . Located south of

104-637: The Durance lie to the south. The town lies on the perimeter of the Luberon Geological Nature Reserve because of the proximity to exceptional fossil sites. Like all places situated along the river Durance , Cadenet had a Jewish community in the Middle Ages . A document of the year 1283 states that this community, together with those of Aix-en-Provence , Saint-Maximin , Lambesc , Pertuis , Istres , Trets , and Lanson ,

117-462: The département Yvelines , close to Paris, in 1876. [REDACTED] Category Cadenet Cadenet ( French pronunciation: [kadnɛ] ) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France . Cadenet is a village located on the southern slopes of the Luberon Massif , overlooking the valley of the Durance . It

130-612: The town. A railway runs through the town on an east–west axis across the plains at the south end of the village. This is the line of the Cheval-Blanc in Pertuis . The village is situated on a hill overlooking the valley of the Durance , on the southern Luberon Massif , in mountainous terrain formed during the Early Cretaceous period. Several other hills lie to the east, including Castellar . The alluvial plains of

143-590: Was permitted to have a synagogue and a cemetery on paying an annual tax of two pounds of pepper to the archbishop of Aix . In 1385 a remarkable lawsuit arose in Arles , relating to an alleged marriage. The plaintiff was Maestro Duran of Cadenet. In order to be revenged on Meirona, daughter of En Salves Cassin of Arles, who had refused him, Duran declared that he had married her in the presence of two witnesses, Vidal Abraham of Bourrin and Bonfilh or Bonfils Crégud. These witnesses were later convicted of perjury . The case

SECTION 10

#1732793284428

156-423: Was successful enough to be able to arrange public performances of his works. With Le désert he was acknowledged by the public and the critics as a significant force. The Revue et gazette musicale announced, the morning after its premiere, "A great composer has been born amongst us". To relieve his substantial debts, however, the composer sold the rights to his masterpiece for a relatively small sum. David wrote

169-704: Was taken in turn before the rabbinical colleges of Arles, Nîmes , Montpellier , and Perpignan , and in the last instance, upon the demand of Don Salemias Nasi of Valence , was submitted to R. Isaac ben Sheshet , who pronounced severe judgment against Duran and his fellow-conspirators, and bitterly reproached the community of Arles that it had not done its utmost to prevent such a scandal from becoming public. A Jew, Mosson of Cadenet by name, lived at Carpentras in 1404; and two others, Salvet of Cadenet and Vidalon of Cadenet, were sheriffs of that community in 1460. Its inhabitants are called Cadenétiens in French. Cadenet

#427572