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| Classical Composer: | Satie, Erik |
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| Work: | Avant-dernières pensées * |
| Year Composed: | 1915 |
| Instrumentation: | pf |
| Publisher: | SDRM |
| Duration: | 00:03:00 |
| Period: | 20th Century |
| Work Category: | Instrumental |
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The Avant-dernières pensées (Next-to-last Thoughts) has a similar parallel commentary. The first, Idylle, is dedicated to Debussy, with the opening direction to the performer: Moderately, I beg you. What do I see? The brook is all wet and the wood dry and inflammable as sticks: but my heart is very small. The trees look like great ill-shaped combs, and the sun, like a bee-hive, has fair golden rays: but my heart shivers in fear: the moon has blended with its neighbors and the brook is soaked through to the bone.
Aubade, the second piece, is dedicated to Paul Dukas. When the melody is heard in the lower register the performer is told to sing seriously; very down-to-earth. Do not sleep, sleeping beauty: listen to the voice of your beloved: he is plucking the notes of a rigaudon. How he loves you! He is a poet: do you hear him? He is making fun, perhaps? No, he adores you, sweet beauty! He takes up a rigaudon again and a cold. You would not love him? But he is a poet, an old poet!
Meditation is dedicated to a third composer of contemporary distinction, Albert Roussel. The poet is shut in his old tower: here is the wind. The poet is meditating, without appearing to: all of a sudden he has goose-flesh. Why? It is the Devil! No, it is not: it is the wind, the wind of the spirit passing by. The poet's head is full of it, of the wind! He smiles wickedly, while his heart weeps like a willow: but the Spirit is present, looking at him with an evil eye, a glass eye. And the poet becomes humble and blushes. He can meditate no more: he has indigestion, from bad blank verse and bitter disillusion!
Writer: Keith Anderson
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