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R​ê​verie du Pauvre (a​.​k​.​a. Les Enfants)

by Furniture Music

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Rêverie du Pauvre was posthumously attributed to Erik Satie by Robert Caby, in 1968. There is evidence, however, that Caby was mistaken. Here’s what really happened:

In 1882, Jules Massenet published the chanson Les Enfants, giving melody to a poem by Georges Boyer. A few years later, the ‘chansonnier’ Vincent Hyspa – who singed accompanied by Satie at the Chat Noir cabaret – wrote the parody Les Élephants, featured in his Chansons d’humour. But Hyspa couldn’t sing Massenet’s melody in the original key, so he asked Satie to transpose it down to D flat. That’s it. Rêverie du Pauvre is not even a whole piece, but an accompaniment piano part for a chanson, transcribed by Satie around 1900.

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released September 22, 2021
Real composer: Jules Massenet
Performance: L. Sierakowski
Cover art: Interior of the Chat Noir (c.1889) by Fernand Lunel

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Furniture Music Curitiba, Brazil

My name is L. Sierakowski. I'm a pianist composer and a big fan of Erik Satie's music. Here you'll be able to listen to all of that.

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