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Déodat de Séverac (1872-1921) was born in Languedoc, South France. He descended from a noble family.
He studied under Vincent d'Indy and Albéric Magnard at the Schola Cantorum, an alternative to the training offered by the Conservatoire de Paris. He took organ lessons from Alexandre Guilmant and worked as an assistant to Isaac Albéniz. He returned to the Southern part of France, where he spent much of the rest of his rather short life. His native south was a region that attracted a number of his contemporaries—artists and poets he had met in Paris.
Séverac is noted for his vocal and choral music, which includes settings of verse in Occitan (the historic language of Languedoc) and Catalan (the historic language of Roussillon) as well as French poems by Verlaine and Baudelaire. His compositions for solo piano have also won critical acclaim, and many of them were titled as pictorial evocations and published in the collections Chant de la terre, En Languedoc, and En vacances. His masterpiece is the Cerdaña suite (written 1904–1911), filled with the local color of Languedoc.
