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Enfantines
The ''Enfantines'' are three sets of beginner piano pieces by Erik Satie, "written with the aim of preparing children for the sound patterns of modern music."〔This "mission statement" by Satie prefaced the initial set ''L’Enfance de Ko-Quo'' which he withheld from publication, but is germane to the whole series. He typically followed it with a whimsical joke: "They have won me congratulations from the Shah of Persia and the King of Yvetot." See http://thefrogweb.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/satie1/ Robert Orledge, "Erik Satie – L’Enfance de Ko-Quo (Recommendations maternelles)", part of the article "Erik Satie: Autour des Nocturnes" posted on The Frogweb April 18, 2010.〕 They were composed in October 1913 and published the following year. Two additional sets were published posthumously.
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Many of Satie's contemporaries spoke of his essentially childlike nature.〔Composer Robert Caby, an associate of Satie's last years, said: "His was a unique personality. He was something else: a child of genius, with the candor and purity one finds in a child." Robert Caby, interview with Robert Orledge on September 13, 1986. Cited in Orledge, "Satie Remembered", Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1995.〕〔In a 1922 letter, Dada artist Francis Picabia called Satie "truly a sad child, whom alcohol sometimes renders optimistic." Quoted in Steven Moore Whiting, "Satie the Bohemian", Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 517.〕〔Satie addressed his own aging with a characteristic blend of irony and conviction. In a 1922 lecture he referred to his ''Premier Menuet'' (1920) as "written when I was still quite young - 54 years old." See http://www.musicalobservations.com/publications/satie.html. Paul Zukofsky, "Satie Notes" (2011), revised text of program notes for the 1991 Summergarden Concert Series of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.〕 He identified with children, and his respect for their innocence and naiveté has been related to his own quest for purity and directness in music.〔http://www.allmusic.com/composition/menus-propos-enfantins-childish-chatter-for-piano-from-quot-enfantines-quot--mc0002361546 Alexander Carpenter Allmusic review.〕 From 1908 to 1910 he ran a charity group in his hometown of Arcueil to take orphans and poorer boys and girls on country outings; and on Sunday mornings he gave them solfège lessons and improvised melodies with funny titles to make them laugh.〔Michel Robillard, "Erik Satie in Arcueil", Paris, 1990. Quoted by Olof Höjer in his notes to "Erik Satie: The Complete Piano Music, Vol. 5", p. 22, Swedish Society Discofil, 1996.〕 This side of Satie found its most direct creative expression in the ''Enfantines'', music his first biographer Pierre-Daniel Templier described as not "about children, or for children, but of a child."〔Pierre-Daniel Templier, "Erik Satie", MIT Press, 1969, p. 85. Translated from the original French edition published by Rieder, Paris, 1932.〕
These are genuine children's pieces, crafted for small hands,〔Anne Rey, "Erik Satie", Seghers, Paris, 1974, Collection Musiciens de Tous les Temps. Quoted by Höjer, "Erik Satie: The Complete Piano Music, Vol. 5".〕 with simple themes that can be easily learned. Each set is built on a different five-finger scale, using only the white keys of the piano. ''Menus propos enfantins'' serves as a sort of introduction; there is greater rhythmic variety in the ''Enfantillages pittoresques'' while the ''Peccadilles importunes'' have more dissonant harmonies and varied tempi - thus, according to pianist Olof Höjer, "the music is gradually more advanced and the degree of technical difficulty increases."〔Höjer, "Erik Satie: The Complete Piano Music, Vol. 5".〕
As with his humoristic piano suites of the period (1912-1915), Satie's eccentric wit is evident in the titles and playful narratives appended to the ''Enfantines''. He avoids didacticism in order to give his young pupils "the freedom to engage in the music through play...Satie hoped to have children learn without knowing they were doing so. Indeed, these pieces were designed — visually, musically, textually, and physically — with the delight of the child in mind."〔Dr. Julianne Lindberg, abstract of lecture "Pedagogy, Play, and 'the pianist's reward': Erik Satie's Piano Albums for Children", delivered at University of California, Santa Barbara, January 16, 2010. http://www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/musicwrittenword/panel20th.html〕
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