Twenty Short Pieces for Piano (Sports et Divertissements) (Dover Music for Piano)
By Unknown Author.
Description
Composer Erik Satie (1866–1925) exercised a profound effect on twentieth-century music. His innovative harmonies, freedom of form, and mastery of musical understatement influenced a diverse company of modern masters, ranging from Debussy and Ravel to Milhaud, Poulenc, and Cage. This is a facsimile of an extremely rare collection of the French master's brilliant thumbnail sketches — both musical and verbal — of various outdoor sports and amusements.Satie created these pieces to accompany an album of charming, sophisticated drawings by Charles Martin, a well-known illus...
ISBN(s)
0486243656, 9780486243658
