Note 98 — LOEFFLER

Maurice Rollinat, a godson of George Sand, was born in Châteauroux, France, in 1853 (some authorities say 1846). He was both poet and composer—though his music has not compelled respect among the knowing. He was a celebrity in Paris during the early eighties, when his volume of poems, Les Névroses, appeared, the volume which contained La Villanelle du Diable. He died in a mad-house at Ivry on October 26, 1903. Two other poems from Les Névroses—L'Étang and La Cornemuse—have suggested music to Loeffler: they form the poetic bases of his two "Rhapsodies" for oboe, viola, and piano, published in 1905.