Les Apaches

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This article is about the group of French artists. For other uses of apache, see Apache (disambiguation).

Les Apaches or (Société des Apaches) was a group of French musicians, writers and artists which formed around 1900. Members of the group included:

Edouard Benedictus, painter, composer and scientist
Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi, writer and music critic
Maurice Delage, composer
Manuel de Falla, composer
Léon-Paul Fargue, poet
Lucien Garban, publisher
Pierre Haour
Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht, conductor
Tristan Klingsor, poet, painter, art theorist
Maurice Ravel, composer and pianist
Gomez de Riquet (an imaginary member)
Florent Schmitt, composer
Paul Sordes, painter
Igor Stravinsky, composer
Ricardo Viñes, pianist
Émile Vuillermoz, music critic

The name was taken up by the group after inadvertently bumping into a newspaper seller who exclaimed "Attention les apaches". They soon adapted the name, which literally refers to the Native American Apache tribe, but had the additional meaning in French of 'hooligans'. Ravel suggested that they adopt the first melody of the Borodin 2nd Symphony as their theme, an idea with which they all agreed. The group met each Saturday, most often at the home of Sordes; alternatively, they would meet at that of Klingsor.

The group had rallied around Claude Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande in a particularly controversial effort. Ravel dedicated the movements of his piano work Miroirs to members of the Apaches.

References

Apaches, at Maurice Ravel Frontispice. [Retrieved 17 November 2008].
"Maurice Ravel." Contemporary Musicians, Volume 25. Gale Group, 1999. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2005.

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