Brassens.com is a tribute to Georges Brassens (b. 1921 - d. 1981), the legendary French musician and composer! This site features a film library, a bookstore, a music store, several links of interest and a shop. Georges Brassens was born in Sète, a small harbour town on the French Mediterranean coast, on October 22 1921. His father, Louis Brassens, a builder and local entrepreneur, married Elvira Dagrosa (recently widowed in the First World War) in 1919 and Georges was brought up with his nine-year-old half-sister, Simone, the child from his mother's previous marriage. Although his parents had fundamentally different points of view on many issues including religion (Elvira was an extremely pious woman, whereas Louis was a notorious anti-cleric) Georges grew up in a happy family environment. Music filled the Sète household throughout Georges's childhood. Indeed, his mother, greatly influenced by her Neapolitan origins, had a veritable passion for traditional Italian folk songs and mandolin music. The young Georges was encouraged to play the mandolin from an early age and it was on this instrument that he learnt the simple chords he would later develop on the guitar. Georges was an average pupil at school, but his French teacher Alphonse Bonnafé (who would go on to write the first Brassens biography in 1963) soon introduced him to poetry, which was to become the young Georges's overwhelming passion in life. ..[read more] |
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