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Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes, and other works for piano / Erik Satie.

By: Satie, Erik, 1866-1925.
Material type: materialTypeLabelScorePublisher: New York : Dover, 1989Description: iv p., 172 p. of music ; 31 cm.ISBN: 0486259781.Subject(s): Piano music | Piano music (4 hands)DDC classification: P/1440
Contents:
Sarabandes -- Gymnopédies -- Trois gnossiennes -- Le fils des étoiles -- Sonneries de la Rose + Croix -- Prélude de La porte héroïque du ciel -- Pièces froides -- Poudre d'or -- 3 morceaux en forme de poire -- En habit de cheval -- Aperçus désagréables -- Véritables préludes flasques (pour un chien) -- Descriptions automatiques -- Embryons desséchés -- Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois -- Chapitres tournés en tous sens -- Vieux sequins et vieilles cuirasses.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In his piano works especially, Erik Satie (1866--1925) was a witty musical caricaturist. The eccentric French composer loved to satirize academic rules in general and the impressionistic titles of Debussy's compositions in particular, giving his own works such surrealistic names as Pieces in Pear Form and Dried Embryos , and annotating them with equally bizarre musical directions: "Tres 'neuf heures du matin" (Very "nine in the morning"), "Corpulentus" (Corpulent), and so on. His comic spirit is equally embodied in the music itself, as this delightful selection of seventeen piano works amply proves. They are as spare, lively, and capricious as they are hauntingly melodic. In addition to the well-known Gymnop#65533;dies and Gnossiennes , the pieces reproduced here include Sarabandes, Pi#65533;ces froides, Poudre d'or, En habit de cheval, Morceaux en forme de poire, Embryons dess#65533;ch#65533;s, Aper#65533;us d#65533;sagreables, Descriptions automatiques, and more.
This volume, the largest collection of Satie's piano works yet published, has been reprinted on fine-quality paper from authoritative original editions, and sturdily bound to provide you a lifetime of study and enjoyment. In its pages are some of the most original and appealing achievements of a turbulent era in music, compositions that influenced such modern masters as Ravel, Milhaud, and Poulenc.

Works 9-11 for piano, 4 hands.

Reprint of works originally published 1887-1913.

Sarabandes -- Gymnopédies -- Trois gnossiennes -- Le fils des étoiles -- Sonneries de la Rose + Croix -- Prélude de La porte héroïque du ciel -- Pièces froides -- Poudre d'or -- 3 morceaux en forme de poire -- En habit de cheval -- Aperçus désagréables -- Véritables préludes flasques (pour un chien) -- Descriptions automatiques -- Embryons desséchés -- Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois -- Chapitres tournés en tous sens -- Vieux sequins et vieilles cuirasses.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

At the age of 13, Erik Satie went to Paris, where he attended the Paris Conservatory. He soon, however, relinquished his formal and systematic study of music. Early in his career, he played in cabarets in Montmartre. In 1892 he began to produce short piano pieces with eccentric titles, intended to ridicule proponents of both modern and classical music. He was 40 years old when he decided to learn about the techniques of composition. Although he was dismissed as a serious musician by his contemporaries, Satie greatly influenced French musicians of a younger generation. He became well known as an innovator in the modern idiom after his death. (Bowker Author Biography)

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