Jean Baptiste Larralde, miriku bertsolaria (1804-1870)

CHARRITTON, Pierre

Publication year:

1998

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

84-89516-71-5

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Summary

In the history of popular literature, "schools" of popular improvisers sometimes appear in regions or in given families. This is what occurred in Hasparren (Lapurdi) in the Larralde-Bordaxuri family from which there were at least three authors. The first, Martin Larralde (1782-1821), composed the song of the "galérien" (convict),. The second is the "bourgeois" uncle of mentioned convict: Bernard Larralde (1773-1853). The third is the Bernard´s son, Jean Baptiste Larralde (1804-1870), the physician at San Juan de Luz, who sent 14 original compositions to the Antoine d´Abbadie´s contests, of which the lullaby "Lo, lo, nere maitea" (1859) and "La Violette" (the Violet) (1862); "Le Vieux Garçon" (The Bachelor) (1864) have become popular.