Jean Marie Octave Géraud Poueigh (24 February 1876 in Toulouse – 14 October 1958 in Olivet) was a French composer, musicologist, music critic, and folklorist.
According to Henri Collet, Poueigh was fighting ‘for a national music that can only be such by reviving itself at the source of popular melody… recreating folk-lore, without plagiarising it’.
A Jean Poueigh Festival was organised on 21 April 1925, at the Salle Gaveau, with the Colonne orchestra conducted by Henri Morin.
This being sent on a postcard without envelope, so likely to have been read by the concierge, Satie fell short of a one-year sentence for public defamation.
See Volta, "Satie Seen Through His Letters",[8] Poueigh was interested in traditional music, collecting songs from the Basque Country and Occitania and beyond, and all the folklore of these regions on which his works are still authoritative.