Memory Lost
After his death, even in France, his name mainly came up during copyright litigation cases. French courts ruled his compositions, including The Internationale copyrighted until October 2017.
There is a Pierre De Geyter street in Ghent and there are Pierre Degeyter squares both in Lille (in Fives, the suburb where he used to live) and in Saint-Denis. Lille also named a procession giant after him. A bronze monument to Pierre De Geyter has adorned the Ghent Museum of Industrial Art and Textiles since 1998. A documentary film on Pierre De Geyter and the story of The Internationale has been produced in 1978.
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Famous quotes containing the words memory and/or lost:
“Vashtar: So it’s finished. A structure to house one man and the greatest treasure of all time.
Senta: And a structure that will last for all time.
Vashtar: Only history will tell that.
Senta: Sire, will he not be remembered?
Vashtar: Yes, he’ll be remembered. The pyramid’ll keep his memory alive. In that he built better than he knew.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)
“This melancholy London—I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)