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The ''Sarabandes'' are three dances for solo piano composed in 1887 by Erik Satie. Along with the famous ''Gymnopédies'' (1888) they are regarded as his first important works, and the ones upon which his reputation as a harmonic innovator and precursor of modern French music, beginning with Debussy, principally rests.〔Rollo H. Myers, "Erik Satie", Dover Publications, Inc., NY, 1968, p. 19. Originally published in 1948 by Denis Dobson Ltd., London.〕 The ''Sarabandes'' also played a key role in Satie's belated "discovery" by the French musical establishment in the 1910s, setting the stage for his international notoriety. Alexis Roland-Manuel wrote in 1916 that the ''Sarabandes'' represented "a milestone in the evolution of our music...pieces of an unprecedented harmonic technique, born of an entirely new aesthetic, which create a unique atmosphere, a sonorous magic of complete originality."〔Quoted in Alexander Carpenter's ''Allmusic'' review at http://www.allmusic.com/composition/sarabandes-3-for-piano-mc0002364094〕 ==Background== The ''Sarabandes'' emerged at a point in Satie's life when he was beginning to assert his independence as a man and artist. In November 1886, Satie, at age 20, dropped out of the Paris Conservatoire and volunteered for the French army. His close friend and collaborator at the time, the poet Contamine de Latour (1867-1926), claimed he had persisted with his hated Conservatory courses only so he could qualify for a student exemption that reduced his five years' compulsory military service to one year in the reserves.〔Robert Orledge, "Satie Remembered", Faber and Faber, London, 1995, p. 17.〕〔Frank Northen Magill, "Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th century, O-Z", Routledge, 1999, p. 3331.〕 Satie was assigned to the 33rd Infantry Regiment at the Citadel in Arras,〔Myers, "Erik Satie", Dover Publications, Inc., NY, 1968, p. 18.〕 nicknamed ''La belle inutile'' ("The Useless Beauty") for its fine architecture and lack of strategic importance;〔Arras France Tourism Guide at http://arras-france.com/the-arras-citadel/〕 but even this comparatively mild duty proved too onerous for his liking. He deliberately contracted severe bronchitis by sneaking out of his barracks at night and strolling about bare-chested in the winter air.〔Ornella Volta (ed.), "Satie Seen Through His Letters", Marion Boyars Publishers, London, 1989, pp. 22-23.〕 By April 1887 he was back at his family's home in Paris on a two-month medical leave.〔Robert Orledge, "Satie Remembered", Faber and Faber Limited, 1995, p. xxiii.〕 During his convalescence Satie reunited with Latour, read Gustave Flaubert's ''Salammbô'' and ''The Temptation of Saint Anthony'', and discovered the writings of Joséphin Péladan, the future founder of the Mystic Order of the Rose + Cross with which Satie would be associated in the early 1890s. In May he was thrilled by a performance of Emmanuel Chabrier's new opera ''Le roi malgré lui'', with its daring use of unresolved seventh and ninth chords. As a tribute he visited the composer's home and left with the concierge a copy of one of his early scores, with an extravagant dedication inscribed in red ink. Chabrier never responded to Satie's gesture.〔Pierre-Daniel Templier, "Erik Satie", MIT Press, 1969, p. 11. Translated from the original French edition published by Rieder, Paris, 1932.〕〔In fairness to Chabrier he probably had more pressing issues on his mind. ''Le roi malgré lui'' was presented only three times at the Opéra-Comique's Salle Favart between May 18 and May 23, 1887. Its run was cut short on May 25 by a disastrous fire that destroyed the Salle Favart with a loss of 84 lives. Given the circumstances Chabrier's failure to respond to an unknown fan (Satie) is understandable.〕 On subsequent leaves from his regiment Satie began sketching two works, the ''Sarabandes'' and the ''Gymnopédies'';〔Templier, "Erik Satie", p. 11.〕 he finally focused his attention on the ''Sarabandes'' and finished them on September 18.〔The ''Gymnopédies'' would not be completed until April 1888. See Orledge, "Satie Remembered", p. xxiii.〕 It was the last music he composed under his parents' roof. In November 1887 he was discharged from the army, and the following month - with a gift of 1600 francs from his father to get him started - he set out on his own for a new life in Montmartre, the Bohemian center of Paris.〔Mary E. Davis, "Erik Satie", Reaktion Books, 2007, p. 27.〕 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「Sarabandes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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