José Soler Casabón's L'Homme sans yeux, sans nez et sans oreilles and Erik Satie's Parade

José Soler Casabón, the Spanish musician and poet, is an artistic figure little recognised both nationally and worldwide despite having produced high quality musical works. What is perhaps his greatest work, the ballet he composed in Paris entitled L'homme sans yeux, sans nez et sans oreilles (Ho.S.Y.N.O.) is analysed in this article. The ballet is based on the poem Le musicien de Saint Merry by Guillaume Apollinaire with sets by Pablo Picasso. Moreover, a parallel can be drawn with a contemporary composer, Erik Satie and his ballet Parade, also composed in 1917. The major difference between the two works was that the first, due to various circumstances, including the advent of World War I, was never performed, while the second was a great success

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