Erik Satie (1866-1925)Quintessential musical iconoclastBest known for a steady output of solo piano music
Esotericism/Mysticism/Aestheticism•3 Gymnopédies•3 Gnossiennes•Ogives
Humor/Absurdity•Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear•Flabby Preludes (For a Dog)
Fashionability/Avant Garde•Sports et Divertissements•Parade•Socrate
Ogives (Gothic Arches)
Erik Satie (1866-1925)Quintessential musical iconoclastBest known for a steady output of solo piano music
Esotericism/Mysticism/Aestheticism•3 Gymnopédies•3 Gnossiennes•Ogives
Humor/Absurdity•Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear•Flabby Preludes (For a Dog)
Fashionability/Avant Garde•Sports et Divertissements•Parade•Socrate
Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear
Erik Satie (1866-1925)Quintessential musical iconoclastBest known for a steady output of solo piano music
Esotericism/Mysticism/Aestheticism•3 Gymnopédies•3 Gnossiennes•Ogives
Humor/Absurdity•Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear•Flabby Preludes (For a Dog)
Fashionability/Avant Garde•Sports et Divertissements•Parade•Socrate
Parade (1917):Cubism, Surrealism, and the Ballets Russes
Scenario by Jean CocteauMusic by SatieSets and Costumes by Pablo PicassoChoreagraphed by Léonide Massine
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)Born in Russia (St. Petersburg), lived in France, Switzerland, and the US
Early ballets with Diaghalev – large, rhythmic, brash – establish pre-war reputation as precocious enfant terrible
Stravinsky’s Three PeriodsEarly: The “Russian” Period
“Primitivism” - characterized by “folk” elements:Simple, but exotic melodiesRepetitive, forceful rhythms
Major works (ballets):PetrouchkaThe Rite of SpringLes Noces
Middle: The Neo-Classical Period
A self-conscious return to styles, forms, and gestures of an earlier time – referential, stylized
Major works:PulcinellaOctet for WindsSymphony of PsalmsThe Rake’s Progress
Late Style
Cultivation of an austere, astringent, highly expressive, complex but stripped-down compositional approach
Major works:Agon (ballet)Requien CanticlesIn Memoriam Dylan Thomas
Neo-Classicism: From Puclinella to The Rake’s Progress
Pulcinella (1920)Based on sketches by Pergolesi
The Rake’s Progress (1951)Libretto by W.H. Auden,
Based on a series of Hogarth engravings
In Memoriam Dylan Thomas (1954)
1914-1953
Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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