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The ''Allegro'' is a brief piano piece by Erik Satie. Dated September 9, 1884, when Satie was 18, it is his earliest known composition. It also marked the first time he signed his given name as "Erik" instead of "Éric".〔Steven Moore Whiting, "Satie the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert Hall", Clarendon Press, 1999, p. 64, note 10.〕〔Mary E. Davis, "Erik Satie", Reaktion Books, 2007, p. 20.〕 ==Description== In 1884 Satie was still struggling through his unhappy studies (1879-1886) at the Paris Conservatoire, which he later described as a "penitentiary".〔Pierre-Daniel Templier, "Erik Satie", MIT Press, 1969, pp. 7-8. Translated from the original French edition published by Rieder, Paris, 1932.〕 Significantly, he produced the ''Allegro'' - his first apparent attempt at composing - not as a student exercise but on his own, during a summer holiday visit to his native Honfleur in Normandy. It was the only music he would ever compose in his hometown.〔Robert Orledge, "Satie the Composer", Cambridge University Press, 1990, p. 11. With the exception of the ''Allegro'', all Satie's works were written in Paris or in the Parisian suburb of Arcueil, Satie's home from 1898 until his death.〕 The breezy, irony-free optimism of the nine-bar ''Allegro'' is uncharacteristic of Satie's subsequent work.〔Olof Höjer, notes to "Erik Satie: The Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1", p. 12, Swedish Society Discofil, 1996.〕 It is a musical postcard of sorts, quoting the well-known song ''Ma Normandie'' (1836) by Frédéric Bérat. A snatch of the refrain, the lyrics of which are "J'irai revoir ma Normandie" ("I long to see my Normandy"), is discreetly worked into the middle of the piece. Biographer Mary E. Davis saw this early instance of musical borrowing as a "surprising glimpse of Satie's future compositional style" and added, "The musical reference, clear enough to be audible by any listener familiar with the tune, creates an allusion to both song and place, thus deepening the experience beyond the purely sonic realm into the arena of memory and nostalgia."〔Mary E. Davis, "Erik Satie", Reaktion Books, 2007, p. 20.〕 In his book ''Satie the Bohemian'' (1999), Steven Moore Whiting asserted that this bit of juvenilia revealed "no precocity whatever...an isolated case of allusion to popular repertoire, and an utter lack of awareness how to proceed beyond a promising start."〔Steven Moore Whiting, "Satie the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert Hall", Clarendon Press, 1999, pp. 63-65.〕 Pianist Olof Höjer, on the other hand, found it more technically interesting, noting how Satie deliberately compressed an already miniscule piece through the use of a short bridge passage.〔Höjer, notes to "Erik Satie: The Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1", p. 12.〕 The existence of the ''Allegro'' was unknown for nearly a century before it was discovered among Satie's papers at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Facsimiles of the manuscript were first published by Alan M. Gillmor (1972)〔Alan M. Gillmor, "Erik Satie and the Concept of the Avant-Garde", Ph.D thesis for the University of Toronto, 1972. Cited by Orledge, "Satie the Composer", p. 372.〕 and Nigel Wilkins (1980).〔Nigel Wilkins (ed.), "The Writings of Erik Satie", Eulenburg Books, London, 1980, p. 19.〕 Three performance versions, edited by Robert Orledge, were issued by Salabert between 1995 and 1998.〔http://www.worldcat.org/title/allegro-pour-piano-1884-oeuvre-posthume/oclc/658865476/editions?referer=di&editionsView=true〕 The ''Allegro'' was given its concert premiere by pianist Giancarlo Carlini at the Teatro di Porta Romana in Milan, Italy, on April 12, 1980.〔Orledge, "Satie the Composer", p. 268.〕 It was first recorded by Jean-Pierre Armengaud for the Le Chant Du Monde label in 1986. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Allegro (Satie)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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