3 Morceaux En Forme De Poire Piano Duet

In 1903, Satie composed his famous cycle for piano duet with the provocative and ambiguous title ?3 Morceaux en forme de Poire?. (In French, ?poire? means ?pear? but also ?dimwit?). It is a detached and ironic commentary on the constraints of musical form. Now this cycle is being published in a scholarly-critical Urtext edition for the first time. Convenientpage turns, a score format, translations of the French expression and t empo markings, Satie?s enigmatic introduction, performance suggestions by the Satie specialist Steffen Schleiermacher and a detailed foreword bythe renowned musicologist Jens Rosteck make the study and performance o f these pieces a true pleasure.