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If requested to call our favourite French composer of the late 9teenth or early twentieth century, most of us would attain straight for Erik Satie, with the ability to call to mind solely his most well-known items, the Gymnopédies and perhaps the Gnossiennes. We might not know that these works all date from the identical few years of his profession between the late eighteen-eighties and the early nineties. Additionally they repredespatched solely a small portion certainly of his artistic output, which incorporates a substantial amount of instrumalestal and vocal music in addition to compositions for dramatic works, written between 1886 and his dying in 1925 — the coming hundredth anniversary of which is being celebrated with the reporting of latestly discovered items.
Because the Guardian’s Dalya Alberge writes, these “twenty-seven previously unheard works by Erik Satie, from playful cabaret songs to minimalist nocturnes” have been “painstakingly pieced together from hundreds of small noticebooks,” most of them written “within the bohemian bistros of Montmartre in Paris the place Satie labored as a pianist.”
Their rediscovery owes to the efforts of two composers, James Nye and Sato Matsui, who “tracked down the misplaced material in various archival collections, including the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.” They’ve now been reported by pianist Alexandre Tharaud, and you’ll hear the consequenceing album, Satie: Discoveries, in the Youtube playlist on the prime of the put up.
Well-known in his native France and elsethe place, Tharaud’s professionalfessional containment with the work of his esteemed predecessor and counstriveman goes again to at the least 2009, when he organized a Satie Day at Paris’ Cité de la Musique. That very same yr, he reported Satie’s 1915 compositions Avant-dernières Pensées, or “Penultimate Ideas. As soon as dismissed as minor, even by the composer’s enthusiasts, the Avant-dernières Pensées have since risen in status to turn into a few of his most frequently perfashioned later works. With the 27 quick items that constitute Discoveries, Tharaud’s challenge wasn’t to give you a recent reinterpretation, however the very first interpretation any of us will ever have heard, leaving it to the subsequent century of pianists to place their very own spins on them.
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Based mostly in Seoul, Colin Marshall writes and broadcasts on cities, language, and culture. His tasks embody the Substack newsletter Books on Cities and the ebook The Statemuch less Metropolis: a Stroll via Twenty first-Century Los Angeles. Follow him on the social webwork formerly generally known as Twitter at @colinmarshall.
