The 27 Club - Louis Chavin Traditional Cache
The 27 Club - Louis Chavin
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This cache is part of the 27 Club Series, The club consists of musicians who died at the tender age of 27. Placed on country roads around the Peachester area
Louis Chauvin (March 13, 1881 – March 26, 1908) was an American ragtime musician. Born in St. Louis, Missouri of a Mexican Spanish-Indian father and an African-American mother, he was widely considered the finest pianist in the St. Louis area at the turn of the century. He was part of the ragtime community that met at Tom Turpin's Rosebud bar, along with Joe Jordan and others. Chauvin left only three published compositions and died without having recorded, so his ability is hard to judge today. However, he was long remembered by his peers as an exceptionally gifted performer and composer. He is primarily remembered today for Heliotrope Bouquet, the rag in which he shares compositional credit with Scott Joplin: the nature of the music seems to indicate that Chauvin provided the basis for the first two strains, while Joplin wrote the last two, and edited the work into a cohesive piece, due to the debilitating effects of Chauvin's illness. His published works are: • The Moon is Shining in the Skies (with Sam Patterson, 1903) • Babe, It's Too Long Off (words by Elmer Bowman, 1906) • Heliotrope Bouquet (with Scott Joplin, 1907) Chauvin died in Chicago at the age of 27. His death certificate lists causes of death as "multiple sclerosis, probably syphilitic", and starvation due to coma, although a modern diagnosis would probably conclude he had a neurosyphilitic sclerosis and not link it to multiple sclerosis. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis, MO. Sourced from Wikipedia.
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