| A strange way of saying, but I am trying to like this artist. Paul Cezanne.
I would like to stray off the subject.
In the latter half of the 19th century when he worked hard to create the
paintings of his style, such composers were active in the music world in
France: Cesar Franck, Saint Saens, Georges Bizet, Vincent D'indy, Gabriel
Faure, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Maurice Ravel, .....
Besides deciding this trip, I had tried to understand the modern composers
in France, and so, had rather listened to them as much as possible apart
from the relatively listenable works of Berlioz, Saint Saens and Bizet.
It was because I honestly believed the understanding of France would come
to me at the time of getting close to them. Based on a selfish quibble,
I wanted to approach that country somehow aloof from our climate and with
a different texture at least from me. "High pride with strong self-assertion,
while witt, esprit, ..."
I suppose Paul Cezanne had a strong influence to such composers of the
same country in the same era, especially to the impressionists like Debussy,
Ravel, ... Those artists both in the art and music fields would have led
France of those days to the present figure and affected Japanese culture,
also incorporating it. Saying even in terms of "Impressionists",
it may be my way to understand the French culture. They make me enjoy the
classical music more anyway.
Such incoherent illusion leads me to the music of Debussy and the art of
Cezanne.
When Cezanne was nearly 30 years old in 1867, Paris Expo was held and the
delegation of Tokugawa Shogunate with Tokugawa Akitake, brother of Tokugawa
Yoshinobu, as a leader, was dispatched there from Japan. Young Shibusawa
Eiichi joined it as an attendant.
Meiji Restoration occured in Japan the next year, which destroyed the Tokugawa
Shogunate lasted for 260 years. (This passage is in my long novel "The
Auditorium Where Monsters Live" as the 102nd story of "Zakki-cho".)
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