Hahn, Reynaldo
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| Birthname | Reynaldo Hahn Echenagucia | ||||
| born on | 9 August 1874 at 09:00 (= 09:00 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Caracas, Venezuela, 10n30, 66w56 | ||||
| Timezone | LMT m66w56 (is local mean time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   16°43'   15°22 Asc. 02°54'
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Biography
Venezuelan, naturalised French, composer, conductor, music critic, diarist, theatre director, and salon singer. Best known as a composer of songs, he wrote in the French classical tradition of the mélodie. In 1894, at the home of artist Madeleine Lemaire, he met an aspiring writer three years older than himself. The writer was the then little-known, "highly strung and snobby" Marcel Proust. Proust and Hahn shared a love for painting, literature, and Fauré. They became lovers and often travelled together and collaborated on various projects. One of those projects, Portraits de peintres (1896), is a work consisting of spoken text with piano accompaniment. By 1896 they were no longer lovers but they remained lifelong friends and supporters until Proust's death in 1922.
Relationships
- lover relationship with Proust, Marcel (born 10 July 1871)
Events
Source Notes
Eduardo Castellanos refers to birth certificate in "Reynaldo Hahn: su vida y su obra" by Daniel Bendahán, Monte Avila, 1979
"trece de Noviembre de Mil ochocientos setenta y cuatro ... nació en esta parroquia el día nueve de Agosto del presente año a las nueve A M" (November 13 Thousand eight hundred seventy-four ... was born in this parish on August 9 this year at nine o'clock am)
Categories
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Composer/ Arranger
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Conductor
- Vocation : Entertain/Business : Entertain Producer
