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Ludions
The ''Ludions'' is a song cycle for voice and piano (or organ) by Erik Satie, composed in 1923 to five absurdist poems by Léon-Paul Fargue. It was the last of his vocal compositions, completed two years before his death. The songs are brief and a performance of the set usually lasts less than five minutes.
Songwriting occupied Satie sporadically throughout his life.〔Among Satie's earliest published works were his ''Trois Melodies'' of 1886, when he was 20. Apart from solo piano music he was more productive in this genre than any other, creating some 30 original songs and arrangements for dozens of popular tunes.〕 He produced popular hits for the music hall (''Je te veux'', ''La Diva de l'Empire'') as well as mélodies (French art songs) for more discriminating audiences. In the ''Ludions'' he fused both genres with the irreverent spirit characteristic of his later music.
Biographer Pierre-Daniel Templier called the cycle "one of Satie's most successful works, due to the perfect correlation between the inspiration of the poet and that of the musician. The familiar playfulness of Fargue's poems, their childish rhythms, their humorous nostalgia, are all delicately rendered by Satie...the irony shines through very clearly."〔Pierre-Daniel Templier, "Erik Satie", MIT Press, 1969, p. 104. Translated from the original French edition published by Rieder, Paris, 1932.〕
==Background==
The eccentric poet, journalist and ''flâneur'' Léon-Paul Fargue (1876-1947) has been described as perhaps Satie's "nearest counterpart in literature."〔Rollo H. Myers, "Erik Satie", Dover Publications, Inc., NY, 1968, p. 58. Originally published in 1948 by Denis Dobson Ltd., London.〕 Both men were linked with various Parisian avant-garde movements but remained fiercely independent; both drew on absurd humor and childhood as sources of creative inspiration; and they delighted in wordplay and nocturnal strolls around Paris, a city they knew well. During the World War I years the composer became part of Fargue's intimate circle, the "Potassons", who gathered at Adrienne Monnier's bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres for readings of his work. Monnier was fascinated with their unusual intellects and recalled that at that time Satie was to Fargue "what the Tashi Lama is to the Dalai Lama."〔Ornella Volta (ed.), "Satie Seen Through His Letters", Marion Boyars Publishers, London, 1989, p. 164.〕 Satie set Fargue's poem ''La statue de bronze'' to music in his cycle ''3 Mélodies'' (1916), and the following year Fargue testified on Satie's behalf during his prosecution for libel for sending insulting postcards to a music critic. The ''Ludions'' would be the chief testament of their friendship - and the cause of its acrimonious end.
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