Aperçus Désagréables
''Aperçus désagréables'' ''(Unpleasant Glimpses)'' is a suite for piano four hands composed between 1908 and 1912 by Erik Satie. It shows the early development of his mature style, a product of his studies at the Schola Cantorum de Paris. In performance it lasts about 5 minutes. For its publication in 1913 Satie wrote, "The beautiful and limpid ''Aperçus désagréables''...are written in the most superior style and enable us to understand why the subtle composer is justified in declaring: 'Before writing a work I go round it several times accompanied by myself'". Description In the decade following the end of his Rose + Croix period (1895) Satie struggled to develop a viable new composing style, a goal his desultory studies at the Conservatoire de Paris had left him ill-prepared to achieve. In 1905, at 39, he enrolled as a student at the Schola Cantorum, where for the next seven years he studied counterpoint with Albert Roussel (1905-1908) and orchestration with Vincent d'In ...
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