ABSTRACT
Séverac left Paris permanently in 1907 to live briefly in his childhood home in Saint-Félix-Caraman. By 1909, he had settled in the town of Céret, a Catalan town in the Pyrenees mountains in the province of Roussillon. 1 This move was inspired by the desire to live close to French and Catalan friends in Céret’s artistic community, including Manuel Hugué y Martinez, Pablo Picasso, Frank Haviland, Max Jacob, Juan Gris, Georges Braque, Moise Kisling, and André Derain. Yet, it was also a decision prompted by the composer’s fascination with the land and the music of its people.
