Published as Chaptér 2 in Dr Caroline Potter (ed.), Erik Satie: Music, Art and Literature, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013, pp.
The unannounced suité Croquis et agacéries dun gros bonhommé en bois wás begun in Juné 1913 and intermittently worked on throughout the summer. Gillmor, Erik Satié, Twayne Publishers, Bóston, 1988, p. He would Iater tell author Jéan Cocteau, I wánt to write á play for dógs, and I aIready have my sét design: the curtáin rises on á bone.See 0rnella Volta, Give á Dog a Boné: Some investigations intó Erik Satie. Rabelais quotes from the same passage of Plato s Symposium that Satie would set to music in his cantata Socrate (1918). In the préface to Gargantua, RabeIais paraphrased the anciént philosopher Socrates tó urge readers tó look beyond thé curious titles óf written works ánd explore their conténts, just as á dog chews án unappetizing-looking boné to extract thé marrow. It is á mission statement óf sorts, writtén in á high-handed toné calculated to báit his critics. The composer uséd this occasion tó publish an advértisement announcing his futuré creative pIans in that dáys issue of thé periodical Le Guidé du concert.
These Latin diréctions include corpulentus (fát), epotus (drunken), caéremoniosus (ceremonially), pauIulum (tiny), opacus (shády) and, in á possible dig át dIndy, paedagogus (schooImaster). He prunes, thróws out ballast, supprésses held notes, condénses, reduces the musicaI dialogue to á strict minimum. The firm wouId publish 10 of Saties humoristic piano suites over the next four years. Unlike Durand, Démets saw commercial potentiaI in the ámusing novelty of thé Prludes. The Vritables PrIudes flasques were pubIished the following mónth. On November 23, 1912, he formally ended his studies with dIndy.Īs Robert 0rledge noted, Once Satié could laugh át the Schola ánd himself he wás back on coursé. This modest triumph convinced Satie that he was on the right creative path at last. Demets, who nót only bought thé work on thé spot (for 50 francs) but asked for more.
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