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Cabinet 8 31 Alfred Frueh Portrait of Rare Books & Special Collections in collaboration with the J M Coetzee Erik Satie, Postcard, 1920 Centre for Creative Practice and Art & Heritage Collections present: and Printed on card, 14 x 9 cm In the years after the First World War, Satie’s Alfred (‘Al’) Frueh (1880 – 1968) was an style moved towards what was to become known American cartoonist and caricaturist. He studied Things seen on right and left as neo-classicism. Although his reputation was in Paris from 1909 to 1924, contributing regularly based on his humorous works, Satie’s later music to the New York World, and to New Yorker from Erik Satie in words, pictures and music sometimes has a more serious character. His neo- 1925 onwards. This portrait comes from the year classical masterpiece is the ‘symphonic drama’ that was premiered. Socrate (Socrates). Following his death in 1925, Exhibition 32 Erik Satie Marche de Cocagne. Satie’s music fell into neglect until the 1950s For three trumpets in C Level 1 & 3, Barr Smith Library when there was a revival of interest in his music Reproduction of Satie’s manuscript as in the United States, particularly due to advocacy frontispiece to Almanach de Cocagne, 9 June until 24 July 2011 of the composer John Cage. Editions de la Sirène, Paris 1920 29 Erik Satie Socrate, Symphonic Drama in 223 pages, original soft cover, 11 x 16.5 cm three parts for and voice, composed for the Almanach de Cocagne was an annual performances of Princess Edmond de Polignac. publication (there were only three issues, Cover design by Constantin Brancusi. 1920 – 1922) ‘dedicated to all true gourmands Level 3 Erik Satie (1866 – 1925) Editions de la Sirène, Paris 1920 and free drinkers’; it featured articles by Erik Satie and the Ballet Satie Concert Paper-cover binding, 71 pages leading writers, food critics and artists about The French composer Erik Satie enjoys posthumous fame and influence that far part of Beige Bristol board cover, 31.5 x 24.5 cm food and wine. Satie contributed articles about From the Theatre Collection, Rare Books exceeds his impact during his lifetime. His piano music, notably the Gymnopédie & Special Collections, Barr Smith Library The text for Satie’s ‘symphonic drama’ Socrate food, and for the first issue composed Lunchtimes at Elder Hall a special fanfare, Marche de Cocagne, which No.1, has entered the world of popular culture and become universally familiar. was taken from the French translation of the Militsa Pozharskaya and Tatiana Volodina 1.10 pm – 2.00pm Dialogues of Plato by Victor Cousin, a French later reappeared in the orchestral suite Trois Composers, artists and writers of the 20th and 21st centuries continue to draw The Art of the : The Russian Friday 24 June philosopher associated with the idea of ‘art for pièces montées, illustrating episodes from Seasons in Paris 1908-29 inspiration from his unique and idiosyncratic work, which includes not just music, Gargantua et Pantagruel by Rabelais — art’s sake’ (‘l’art pour l’art’). The orchestral London: Aurum Press, 1990 General admission $7.00 version was scored for four sopranos and small a work notable for its descriptions of prodigious but a substantial output of literary works and visual art. Doors open from 12.30pm orchestra. The version for voice and piano was acts of gourmandisme. The first Almanach de Programme: Serge Diaghileff’s Season of Satie was born in Honfleur, Normandy, to a French father and a Scottish Cocagne dates from the year that Socrate was Russian Ballets 1919 Wednesday April 30th the first to be publicly performed, extracts Two of Satie’s most important works, mother. He was expelled from the Paris Conservatoire for being ‘incorrigibly lazy’ being presented at the home of the Princess de premiered. to July 22nd Sports et Divertissements (1914) and Polignac by Jane Bathori with Satie at the piano, André Levinson. La Danse d’Aujourd’ Hui but found a congenial milieu in the Bohemian world of Montmartre, where he 33 John Cage On Erik Satie Socrate (1920), will be performed by in April 1918. There were long delays in the Paris: Ed. Duchartre et Van Buggenhoudt, 1929 earned a living as a pianist at the celebrated cabaret Le chat noir. It was there publication, which finally appeared in 1920. In Art News Annual XXVII, New York, 1958 (piano) and Robert that his friendships with artists, poets and musicians (notably ) June 1920 the orchestral version was performed 202 pages in original soft cover, 25 x 32.5 cm Richard Buckle In Search of Diaghilev Macfarlane (tenor), with poet Ken Bolton London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1955 at the Festival Erik Satie in the Salle Erard, Paris. The American composer John Cage (1912 – 1992) reading Satie’s texts in translations by developed. was instrumental in the revival of interest in 391: Revue Publiée de 1917 à 1924 par John Cage. The satirical and irreverent attitudes typical of the Parisian avant-garde 30 John Cage Cheap Imitation Satie’s music that began in the 1950s. Cage Francis Picabia / réédition intégrale Peters Edition/ Henmar Press, New York, 1970 declared that Satie was not merely important, he perfectly matched Satie’s own absurdist streak. This flowered in the humorous présentée par Michel Sanouillet 16 pages, original soft cover with plastic ring was ‘indispensible’. Cage organized performances Paris: Le Terrain Vague, 1960 – 66 Satie Exhibition works that dominated his output in the years 1908 – 1914, including works such binding, 21.5 x 28 cm of Satie’s music, including the first ‘complete’ as Desiccated Embryos, Things seen on right and left (without glasses) and American John Cage (1912 – 1992) was one of the performance of Satie’s notorious Bengt Häger Ballets Suedois 9 June until 24 July 2011 most influential composers of the 20th century. (lasting over 18 hours) at the Pocket Theatre in London: Thames and Hudson, 1990 during Library opening hours. Automatic Descriptions. The unique proto- character of these pieces brought His interest in Satie began in the late 1940s; it New York in 1963. Cage’s article On Erik Satie him fame (though little money) and led to a series of collaborations that marked was not just Satie’s music, but the example of first appeared in Art News Annual in 1958 and On display in two locations his later years — with Picasso, Cocteau, Massine and Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes for his life that inspired Cage, his ‘spirit of humility was subsequently published in Cage’s most in the Barr Smith Library: and renunciation’. Cage organized performances influential book, Silence (1961). Level 1 adjacent to Rare Books (1917); with Charles Martin for Sports & Divertissements (1922); with of Satie’s music, including the first ‘complete’ performance of Satie’s notorious Vexations 34 John Cage M: Writings ’67 – ’72 & Special Collections and Francis Picabia, René Clair and the Ballets Suédois for Relâche (1924). He also (lasting over 18 hours) at the Pocket Theatre Calder and Boyars, London 1973 Level 3 entrance foyer became a mentor for young French composers, including those known as Les Six: 217 pages, hardcover, 24.5 x 21 cm in New York in 1963. Free – all welcome Francis Poulenc, , Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger Satie’s Socrate was one of Cage’s favourite works. John Cage’s typographic experiments which and Germaine Tailleferre. He made a transcription of it for two , but culminated in M (1973), recall Satie’s innovative when it could not be published for copyright typography (the libretto of his ‘esoteric opera’ image This exhibition is presented by the J M Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice Erik Satie by Alfred Frueh reasons, he made another version using ‘chance uspud´ is believed to be the first work in the postcard, c1920 to complement the concert in Elder Hall on June 24, 2011, featuring two major operations’. Employing a system derived from the history of typography printed entirely in lower case) and his idiosyncratic calligraphy. On page works by Erik Satie: Sports & Divertissements and Socrate, performed by Stephen Chinese classic of divination, the I Ching or Book With thanks to Stephen Whittington, 110 of M, Cage refers to Satie’s Socrate. The of Changes, Cage changed every note in Satie’s J M Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, Whittington (piano), Robert Macfarlane (tenor) and Ken Bolton (reader.) All the score (mostly from the voice part but occasionally quotation from Satie on page 111 (‘We must be Lunchtimes at Elder Hall and Division works in this exhibition come from the personal collection of Stephen Whittington, from the accompaniment), while preserving the uncompromising to the end’) might be a motto of Services and Resources of the University and phrase structure. The result was for Cage’s life and work, as well as Satie’s. of Adelaide for their support for this project. Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide. Cheap Imitation. A comparison of the first page of Satie’s score and Cage’s version gives some idea of how the process transformed the original. John Cage performed this work on the piano in Adelaide, during his only visit here in 1976. The concert in Adelaide’s Festival Theatre resulted in the largest mass walk-out by an audience in Adelaide’s history. BARR SMITH LIBRARY image Things seen on right and left Pierre Alechinsky Bercez/Buvez (Rock/Drink) Erik Satie in words, pictures and music Indications de jeu, 2002, etching

Cabinet 1 Cabinet 2 It was subsequently offered to Satie who For the ‘desiccated’ and the ‘stultified’, I have Cabinet 7 Satie’s Faction Playing Instructions protested that 10,000 francs was excessive; he added a chorale, sober and suitable. This makes Erik Satie, Occultist agreed to accept a reduced fee of 5,000 francs. a kind of wormwood preamble, a way of Erik Satie, Bath Academy of Art, May 1976 Erik Satie and Pierre Alechinsky and Cabaret Artist Satie composed the music in 1914, but publication beginning wholly austere and unfrivolous. 25 loose leaves and four cards in folder Indications de jeu, Pierre d’Alun, Brussels 2002 of the edition was delayed by the First World I have put into it everything I know about During the years 1888 – 1899, Satie lived a 17.5 x 23 cm Texts by Erik Satie War, and did not appear until 1923. The 21 pieces boredom. I dedicate this chorale to those who Bohemian existence in Montmartre, earning his Etchings by Pierre Alechinsky The album Erik Satie was created by a group in this collection, illustrating the pastimes already dislike me. And withdraw. Erik Satie.’ living as a cabaret pianist and composing popular 76 loose pages, 16.5 x 23 cm, limited edition of mainly British artists (including Tom Phillips, of the bourgeoisie, are accompanied by short songs for cabaret singers. At the same time he Ian Breakwell and John Christie) who collectively Belgian artist Pierre Alechinsky (b.1927) humorous texts (which could be considered Cabinet 4 immersed himself in the art of the Middle Ages, called themselves ‘Satie’s Faction’ (a pun on has lived in France since 1951. His work is poems) by Satie. The edition reproduces Satie’s Erik Satie and Charles Martin, and in occult and esoteric philosophy, which was ‘satisfaction’.) An exhibition of work inspired by strongly influenced by Chinese and Japanese manuscript and texts as he wrote them in his Sports & Divertissements very much in vogue in Parisian artistic circles. Satie was held in 1975, the 50th anniversary of calligraphy, and is held in the collections of distinctive style of calligraphy, using black and continued… 24 Erik Satie Sonneries de la Rose+Croix major art museums, including MOMA (New red ink; it is the masterpiece of Satie’s ‘humorous his death, to coincide with a concert of his music (Fanfares of the Rose+Cross), for piano York), the Tate Modern (London) and the period’. Together with the illustrations of Charles 15 La Comédie italienne at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. This album, I. Air of the Order. II. Air of the Grand Master, Museum Ludwig (Cologne). Indications de jeu Martin, this album is one of the finest publishing (The Commedia dell’Arte) Score. derived from the exhibition, was published in a Sâr Joséphin Péladan III. Air of the Grand Prior, (Playing Instructions) is a series of etchings by achievements of the 1920s. limited edition by the Bath Academy of Art. 16 Illustration by Charles Martin for Count Antoine de la Rochefoucauld. Alechinsky inspired by the unusual directions 26 Charles-Lucien Léandre Les Chansonniers La Comédie italienne Privately published at the expense of Antoine de 1 Gary Birch Cubist Pear (blue period) that frequently appear in Satie’s scores. Not 13a Erik Satie and Charles Martin chez eux (The song-writers at home) lithograph, hand-coloured by Jules Saudé la Rochefoucauld, ‘by petition of the Rose Croix’. When Debussy suggested to Satie that his music content with the traditional con brio or Sports & Divertissements, Front Cover From: Victor Meusy and Edmond Depas, Guide E. Dupré printers, Rue du Delta 26, Paris 1892. lacked form, Satie responded with Three Pieces adagio espressivo, Satie wrote instructions such 17 Ronald Johnson Translation of Satie’s de l’étranger à Montmartre, Paris 1900. 13b Erik Satie and Charles Martin Cover illustrated with the reproduction of a in the Shape of a Pear (Trois morceaux en as ‘open your head’, or ‘with righteous anger’. text for La Comédie italienne 118 pages, with original soft covers and later Sports & Divertissements, Table of Contents sanguine drawing — a fragment of ‘War’ by forme de poire, 1903). Illustration by John Furnival. hard-cover binding. This copy inscribed by The twenty pieces are: Puvis de Chavannes 7 Avec conviction et une tristesse rigoureuse From the album Erik Satie, Bath Academy Victor Meusy and dated March 1901. / Avec déférence / Avec fascination / Avec 1 Choral inappétisant (Unappetising Chorale) 12 leaves on Holland paper, 28 x 22.5 cm 2 Ian Breakwell Intelligence and Musicality of Art, May 1976. This little guidebook was produced for tourists among Animals lenteur / Avec precaution et lent Avec 2 La Balançoire (The Swing) Satie was for a time the official composer to the American poet Ronald Johnson (1935 – 1998) coming to Paris for the great 1900 Exposition Ian Breakwell (1943 – 2005) was an important tendresse (With conviction and a rigorous 3 La Chasse (Hunting) Catholic and Aesthetic Order of the Rose+Cross took his poetic inspiration from ‘Fred Astaire, who wanted to experience the Bohemian life British multimedia artist noted for his detailed sadness / With deference / With fascination / 4 La Comédie italienne of the Temple and the Grail, an esoteric Louis Zukosfky, Tin Pan Alley and the Concord of Montmartre, which was about as far from observations of life and society. The text comes With slowness / With precaution and slowly / (The Commedia dell’Arte) based on Rosicrucian traditions, founded in 1891 Transcendentalists’ — to which might be their bourgeois lives as could be imagined. The from the Erik Satie’s article Intelligence and With tenderness). by ‘Sâr’ Joséphin Péladan. The following year 5 Le Réveil de la Mariée added the Black Mountain Poets, the Abstract guide contains Satie’s humorous article Les , Revue Musicale Péladan initiated the first artistic Salon of the Musicality among Animals (The Bride’s Awakening) Expressionist painters and classical music musiciens de Montmartre (The musicians 8 Bercez / Buvez (Rock / Drink) Rose-Cross at the Durand-Ruel Gallery. It was S.I.M., VIII, 11, November 1912. of Montmartre), one of the earliest of Satie’s Inside the shape of a grand piano, one can 6 Colin-Maillard (Blind Man’s Buff) (notably Bach, Mahler and Satie). The placement huge success, with sixty painters and sculptors articles to be published. It is accompanied discern an umbrella (Satie had a collection 7 La Pêche (Fishing) of words on the page is an integral part of 3 Nick Cudworth For a Dog contributing work (including Hodler, Khnopff, by an illustration by Charles-Lucien Léandre of more than one hundred), and a 8 Le Yachting (Yachting) Johnson’s concrete poetry. His translation of English artist Nick Cudworth (b. 1947) often Schwabe and Bourdelle). 20,000 Parisians came (1862 – 1934), one of the best known comic (a device which Satie wryly suggested was 9 Le Bain de mer (Sea Bathing) Satie’s texts from Sports & Divertissements depicts musical subjects in his work. The figure to see the exhibition, including the cream of artists and illustrators of the day. His posters essential to the aspiring composer). was originally published by Wild Hawthorn at the piano is Erik Satie, wearing the bowler 10 Le Carnaval (Carnival) literary and artistic society (Mallarmé, Zola, Press, founded by the Scottish poet writer, artist advertising cabaret artists rival those of hat that became his customary attire in later 11 Le Golf (Golf) Verlaine, and Moreau among others). At the 9 Comme une douce demande / Comme un and landscape gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay Toulouse-Lautrec. In Léandre’s illustration, years. The title For a Dog alludes to Satie’s Truly 12 La Pieuvre (The Octopus) grand opening the Prelude to Wagner’s Parsifal Montmartre’s leading chansonniers sit at a rossignol qui aurait mal aux dents (Like a (1925 – 2006). English artist John Furnival flabby preludes — for a dog. The dog in question and Erik Satie’s Fanfares of the Rose+Cross table in a bar or café — their ‘home’. ‘Europe is sweet request / Like a nightingale who had 13 Les Courses (Horse-Racing) (b. 1933) studied at Wimbledon School of Art was a publisher who objected to the title of Satie’s (in a version for trumpets and harps) were looking at us!’ it proclaims ironically; the public toothache). 14 Les Quatre-Coins (Hide and Seek) and the Royal College of Art. His work lies Flabby preludes, on the grounds that he couldn’t performed. The Fanfares were published in a walks past, displaying little interest. Erik Satie 15 Le Pique-nique (Picnic) ‘between poetry and painting’ and frequently see what was flabby about them. piano score, with a cover by the artist Puvis de is seated at front left, facing away, dressed in his 10 Ouvrez la tête (Open your head). 16 Le Water-Chute (The Water-Slide) incorporates text. Chavannes (1824 – 1898), whose paintings Satie then customary attire of top hat and cloak, with 11 Que votre emotion soit suave 17 Le Tango — perpétuel greatly admired. 4 Ronald King A Eulogy of Critics Cabinet 5 shoulder-length hair. Ronald King (b.1932) is noted book artist (Let your emotion be pleasant) (The Tango — never-ending) and founder of Circle Press, dedicated to the A large letter ‘S’ (for Satie) which also 18 Le Traîneau (The Bobsled) Erik Satie and Charles Martin, 25 Jules-Bois (Henri Antoine Jules-Bois, 27 Erik Satie , Paris 1904 production of artists’ books. Satie’s A Eulogy of recalls the treble clef. 19 Le Flirt (Flirting) Sports & Divertissements 1868 – 1943), La Porte Héroique du Ciel Printed on card, 14 x 9 cm (The Heroic Gate of Heaven) Critics is the text of a lecture he delivered at the 12 Visible pour un instant 20 Le Feu d’artifice (Fireworks) continued… Advertising postcard issued by the publishers Music (Prélude) by Erik Satie. Dedication and Théatre du Vieux Colombier on February 5, 1918, (Visible for a moment) 21 Le Tennis (Tennis) 18 Le Carnaval (Carnival) Bellon, Ponscarme & Cie illustrated with an Illustrations by Count Antoine de Rochefoucauld. at a time when his friends were fighting to lift the The bell of a euphonium, or perhaps Translation of Satie’s text by John Cage. extract from Satie’s score of the song Je te veux Librairie de l’Art Indépendant, Paris 1894. sentence of eight days in prison and a 1000 francs the horn of an old gramophone. 14 Choral inappétisant (I want you), a slow valse chantée (sung waltz), 19 Le Yachting (Yachting) 84 pages, cover with gold lettering, 28 x 13 cm. fine imposed on Satie for having insulted a music (Unappetising Chorale) Score. with a portrait of the singer Paulette Darty, the Translation of Satie’s text by John Cage. This copy inscribed by the author, ‘A Monsieur critic. Translation of Satie’s preface in mesostic form by ‘Queen of the slow waltz’. Je te veux was Satie’s Jacques des Gachons, amicale et ésoterique John Cage. The mesostic is a poetic form invented 20 Le Tennis (Tennis) most successful cabaret song, and remains one Cabinet 3 souvenir’. 5 John Christie Erik Satie and Charles Martin by John Cage. The horizontal text intersects with Translation of Satie’s text by John Cage. of his best known works. The Tango is the Dance of the Devil Sports & Divertissements a vertical word or text in the middle of each line, Jules-Bois was an occultist and author of Le John Christie (b. 1945) is best known for his written in capitals. It is similar to an acrostic, in Cabinet 6 Satanisme et la Magie (Satanism and Magic.) 28 Erik Satie La Diva de l’Empire. Erik Satie and Charles Martin collaborative work with John Berger, notably the which the initial letters of each line spell a word Erik Satie and Charles Martin, La Porte Héroique du Ciel is an esoteric drama Rouart, Larolle et Cie., Paris 1919 Sports & Divertissements Colour Project (1997 – 1999). The Tango is the or text. Each of John Cage’s translations of Satie’s Sports & Divertissements about the spiritual quest of a poet, with a cast 8 pages, 34.5 x 26 cm Music by Erik Satie, 1914 dance of the Devil is part of Satie’s text for texts for Sports & Divertissements spells E-R-I- continued… of characters including courtesans and Jesus. Cover design by Natalia Goncharova Illustrations by Charles Martin (1922?) Le Tango — perpétuel, one of the pieces in K-S-A-T-I-E through the middle of every line. One of Satie’s loveliest works is his Prelude to Another of Satie’s popular songs for the cabaret Sports & Divertissements. Publication Lucien Vogel, Paris 1923 A full translation of Satie’s Preface reads: 21 Le Bain de mer (Sea Bathing) the drama, which was printed in this volume artistique, again from the repertoire of Paulette Portfolio, 40 x 44 cm, 42 plates on Holland paper. ‘This publication embodies two arts, drawing and Translation of Satie’s text by John Cage. published by the Librairie de l’Art Indépendant. Darty, but not a valse lente: this is a syncopated 6 Maurizio Nannucci Apple Blossom Cover bound in boards, decorated by Charles music. The drawing part consists of lines, witty This bookshop, run by Edmond Bailly, was at the melody in the ragtime style, which was becoming 22 La Balançoire (The Swing) Maurizio Nannucci (b.1939) is an internationally Martin, with title printed in black on a grey label, lines; the musical part of plain black dots. These epicenter of Symbolism and was frequented by increasingly popular in France. Natalia Translation of Satie’s text by John Cage. renowned conceptual artist and light sculptor. glued. two parts together make an album. I suggest you Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Stéphane Mallarmé, Goncharova (1881 – 1962) was one of the most His exploration of the relationship between The commission for this sumptuous edition was turn its pages with a tolerant thumb and with a 23 Le Tango — perpétuel Odilon Redon and many other prominent artists. important Russian modernist artists, working sound, text and image led him to develop an first offered to Igor Stravinsky, who declined smile, for this is a work of pure whimsy. Let no (The Tango — never-ending) Amongst its many publications was the first as a painter, set designer (for the Ballets Russes interest in the work of Erik Satie. because the fee of 10,000 francs was insufficient. one look for more. Translation of Satie’s text by John Cage. edition of Oscar Wilde’s Salome (1893). among others) and illustrator.