Paul Delmet

Paul Julien Delmet (June 17th, 1862 - October 28th, 1904) is a Compositeur and French singer, born in Paris. He is the author of Romance S with success.

Child, it points out himself by a pure voice of light soprano to the Maîtrise of the school of the Brothers of Saint-Vincent-of-Paul. He enters then the choruses of the Concerts Column. At 12 years, he learns the trade from copper plate engraver, of partitions of music, which he exerts during ten years. It is there that one of his/her colleagues initiates it with the laws of the Harmonie. It engraves in particular works of Massenet, Audran, Messager. In parallel, he sings in concerts of amateurs.

Paul Delmet occurs soon with Montmartre, initially with the Cabaret of the one-eyed Magpie, then with famous the black Chat, in 1886. This thin young man, fair, bearing eyeglass to dissimulate a glass eye, obtains success quickly there, by interpreting sentimental lovesongs a little vieillottes. Initially only interprets, it starts to write some melodies on texts provided by chansonniers, attending the black Cat, the rule of the establishment being which one says or which one sings his own works. Its first Lovesong, Pretty May , date of 1887. It is followed by many others, which indicate a great melody direction. Its first great successes are written on poems of Maurice Vaucaire, in particular the Small Paving stones and Petit Sorrow (1891).

About 1889, Paul Delmet meets that which will be his/her more faithful collaborator, Maurice Boukay, of which it will put in music tens of poems. Of his true name Maurice Couyba (1866-1931), this professor with the college Arago the day is chansonnier with the Black Cat the evening, before being made elect appointed radical of the Haute-Saône in 1896, and becoming Commercial Minister in 1911. Paul Delmet also writes the music of songs of Theodore Botrel, then unknown, and which it contributes to leave the shade.

As from 1893, songs of Paul Delmet, whom he still interprets on the occasion in the Montmartrean cabarets become to the repertory large artists of Café-concert of the time, in the most prestigious establishments like La Scala, the Eden Concert or the Ambassadors. The lovesongs of Delmet also meet a great success in the living rooms ( Fanfreluches , 1896; Sending of flowers , 1898; Let us close our curtains , 1899; the Star of Love , 1899; the Small Church , 1902, the last known work of Paul Delmet).

Used by a life of unrepentant night bird and alcohol - it was a large amateur of Absinthe - Paul Delmet dies in Paris on October 28th, 1904, it is 42 years old.

Since 1898, the songs of Paul Delmet are recorded on cylinders, then on discs, by many interpreters, but the type-setter did not engrave any of his works. Without never truly falling into the lapse of memory, the lovesongs of Paul Delmet pass a little mode during the " Years folles" decade 1920. They find a renewal of success with the interpretation of the Small Church , redécouverte in 1934 by Jean Lumière, which will interpret several songs of Delmet thereafter. More close to us, Mouloudji, Claude Nougaro, Beautiful Marie-Paule, Richard Anthony, Andre Claveau, Andre Dassary, Armand Mestral and Tino Rossi (which personifies Paul Delmet in film of Jean Stelli, Envoi of flowers , turned in 1950) put songs of Paul Delmet at their repertory.

Works

N.B. Between brackets, name of the author of the poem or the words.

With the Garden of the love (Emile de Valmonca)
Lullaby of Love (Maurice Boukay)
frail Song (Maurice Boukay)
Song libertine (J. Richard)
Song for my mother (Valdorin de Volgré)
Charm of Love (Maurice Boukay)
It! (Jacques Madeleine)
Envoi of flowers (Henri Bernard)
Fanfreluches (Louis Forest)
Let us close our curtains (Maurice Boukay)
Around fifty (Georges Courteline)
the Small Church (Charles Fallot)
the Singer of wood (Leon Durocher)
the Heart of the poet (Charles Fallot)
the Past which spins (Gregoire Roy)
the Old Beggar (Henri Bernard)
the Cabbages (Victor Meusy)
the Two tulips (Maurice Boukay)
the Moms (Theodore Botrel)
the Small Paving stones (Maurice Vaucaire)
the Star of love (Charles Fallot)
Lettre in Ninon (Henri Maigrot known as Henriot)
My soft Annette (Theodore Botrel)
Mélancolie (Armand Silvestre)
My heart dreamed (Ernest Chebreux)
Petit Sorrow (Maurice Vaucaire)
Petite Brunette with the soft eyes (Jacques Madeleine)
When we are old (Theodore Botrel)
Ressemblance (Raoul Gineste)
Rose d' Amour (Leon Durocher)
Séparons us (Leon Durocher)
Stances in Manon (Maurice Boukay)
Suzette (Mariani)
Ton nose (Maurice Boukay)
Quite simply (Maurice Boukay)
You told me (Maurice Boukay)
You laughed! (Germain Lux)
You are so pretty (Leon Suès)

Bibliography and Discography

Dictionary of French Biography (under the direction of Novel of Amat), Paris, Letouzey and Ané, 1962.
Hundred years of French song (C. Brunschwig, L. - J. Calvet, J. - C. Klein), Paris, Editions of the Threshold, 1981.
Paul Delmet. Its songs, its interpreters (booklet of 32 pages established by Jean Buzelin, accompanying the box by 2 CD of the same title, published by EPM Music, 2000).
Songs of Paul Delmet Mario Hacquard, baritone - Georges Dumé, piano (CD published by Aliénor).

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