Premier Menuet
The ''Premier Menuet'' (''First Minuet'') is a Neoclassical piano piece by Erik Satie. Written in June 1920, it was his last composition for solo piano. It was published by Les Éditions de La Sirène in 1921. Description The piece was inspired by the minuet, a stately dance popular in the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1909, during his period studying at the Schola Cantorum, Satie produced a handful of unpublished minuet exercises with offbeat titles such as ''Le prisonnier maussade'' (''The Sullen Prisoner'') and ''Le grand singe'' (''The Big Ape''). When he returned to the form a decade later he studied Mozart minuets in preparation. The finished work bears the outward trappings of its classical antecedents - 3/4 time and ABA structure, with the B section imitating a trio - though it avoids traditional development and is subjected to Satie's characteristic unexpected harmonic progressions. Unlike his previous Neoclassical keyboard work the ''Sonatine bureaucratique'' (1917), ...
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