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Feline groovy: cats in classical music – 10 of the best


Cat-erwauling. Quirijn de Lang as Tom Cat and Wallis Giunta as the Child in Opera North’s staging of L’Enfant et Les Sortilèges by Ravel.
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian
Is there a choral singer anywhere who doesn’t know Christopher Smart’s cat, Jeoffry? Smart’s feline companion is the subject of 74 enchanting lines of his visionary poem Jubilate Agno (1759-63), set to music by Benjamin Britten in his cantata Rejoice in the Lamb. Smart’s poem was written in an asylum where he had been incarcerated – for mania – with only Jeoffry for company.
This real-life feline is the subject of my book, Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat, in which I wanted to capture how a cat could be both solace and muse to the creative artist. ....

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