I have a liking for the music of Erik Satie. When Partner and
I were in France last October, we visited Satie's childhood home in Honfleur, and
one of his residences in the Montmartre district of Paris. He’s one of my
favorite composers. He was a complex personality: he could be disagreeable and angry, and was a determined loner for
much of his life, making and losing friends (among them Claude Debussy).
He wrote this small piece, his Fourth Nocturne, during the last years of his life. Rollo Myers, who wrote the first English-language biography
of Satie, says of this nocturne: “Is there not something Chopinesque about the
flowing arpeggios in the left hand which provide, as it were, so reassuring a
support for the bare consecutive fifths which outline the melody above?”
Enjoy.
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