Patrice Contamine de Latour (17 March 1867 – 24 May 1926),[1] born in Tarragona as José Maria Vicente Ferrer Francisco de Paola Patricio Manuel Contamine and published as J. P. Contamine de Latour,[2] was a Spanish poet who lived in Paris.

He was a friend of composer Erik Satie, whose famous piano suites Sarabandes (1887) and Gymnopédies (1888) were inspired by his poetry.

Satie wrote a short comic opera, Geneviève de Brabant, with text by de Latour written under the pseudonym "Lord Cheminot",[2] and also composed the piano piece Le poisson rêveur (The Dreamy Fish) to accompany a lost tale by de Latour.

[3][4] Satie's Petit prélude de 'La Mort de Monsieur Mouche' was written as an introduction to a play by Latour[5] and Satie's unfinished tone poem Le Bœuf Angora was based on Latour's works.

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