Erik Satie
Avant-dernières Pensées
Erik Satie
Avant-dernières Pensées
- Instrumentation Piano
- Composer Erik Satie
- Editor Pascal Rogé
- Editor Ulrich Krämer
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Difficulty Level
- Edition Sheet Music (Urtext)
- Publisher G. Henle Verlag
- Order no. HN1181
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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.