Satie: Avant-dernières Pensées
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- Composer: Erik Satie (1866-1925)
- Editor: Ulrich Krämer
- Fingering: Pascal Rogé (1951-)
- Instrumentation: Piano
- Work: Avant-dernières pensées (1915)
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- Size: 9.3 x 12.2 inches
- Pages: 13
- Urtext / Critical Edition
Description
In a typically humorous manner Satie countered the myth of the great master's "last thought" with his "Next-to-last thoughts" (Avant-dernières Pensées). As was usual with his piano works from 1912 onwards, each of the three highly distinctive pieces with their sound sensitive piano settings contained a short whimsical story printed in the musical text as a subtext, which is more or less closely connected with the music. Satie dedicated his "Next-to-last thoughts" to prominent contemporaries: Claude Debussy (for no. 1 "Idylle"), with whom he was close friends, Paul Dukas (no. 2 "Aubade", in English "Dawn serenade"), whose music he greatly admired, and Albert Roussel (no. 3 "Méditation"), his former teacher of counterpoint at the Schola Cantorum in Paris.