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Choses Vues à Droite Et à Gauche (sans Lunettes)
''Choses vues à droite et à gauche (sans lunettes)'', commonly translated as ''Things Seen Right-to-Left (Without Glasses)'', is a suite for violin and piano by Erik Satie. Composed in January 1914 and published in 1916, it is the only work he produced for violin-piano duet. A typical performance lasts about 5 minutes. Description One of Satie's infrequent excursions into chamber music, the ''Choses vues'' is contemporaneous with the bulk of his humoristic piano suites (1913-1914) and was conceived in a similar spirit. It has been interpreted as a spoof of academic musical training, in particular that of the Schola Cantorum in Paris, where the composer had recently ended his studies (at age 46) with Vincent d'Indy. The suite's three brief pieces are satirical reinventions of Baroque musical forms, enhanced by Satie's characteristic droll titles and performance directions. ''1. Choral hypocrite'' (''Hypocritical Chorale'') - G Major - ''Grave'' Satie had a singular attitu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satie - Choses Vues à Droite Et à Gauche (sans Lunettes)
Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (, ; ; 17 May 18661 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. He was the son of a French father and a British mother. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, Paris Conservatoire, but was an undistinguished student and obtained no diploma. In the 1880s he worked as a pianist in café-cabaret in Montmartre, Paris, and began composing works, mostly for solo piano, such as his ''Gymnopédies'' and ''Gnossiennes''. He also wrote music for a Rosicrucian sect to which he was briefly attached. After a spell in which he composed little, Satie entered Paris's second music academy, the Schola Cantorum de Paris, Schola Cantorum, as a mature student. His studies there were more successful than those at the Conservatoire. From about 1910 he became the focus of successive groups of young composers attracted by his unconventionality and originality. Among them were the group known as Les Six. A meeting with Jean Cocteau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
