Patrice Contamine de Latour (17 March 1867 – 24 May 1926), born in

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as José Maria Vicente Ferrer Francisco de Paola Patricio Manuel Contamine and published as J. P. Contamine de Latour, was a Spanish poet who lived in

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. He was a friend of composer

Erik Satie Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (, ; ; 17 May 18661 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. He was the son of a French father and a British mother. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, but was an und ...

, whose famous piano suites '' Sarabandes'' (1887) and ''

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'' (1888) were inspired by his poetry. Satie wrote a short comic opera with text by de Latour written under the pseudonym "Lord Cheminot", and also composed the piano piece ''The Dreamy Fish'' to accompany a lost tale by de Latour. Latour died in Paris.

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