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The Véritables Préludes flasques (pour un chien) (True Flabby Preludes for a Dog) is a 1912 piano composition by Erik Satie. The first of his published humoristic piano suites of the 1910s, it signified a breakthrough in his creative development and in the public perception of his music.[1][2] In performance it lasts about 5 minutes.
Satie biographer Rollo H. Myers, writing in 1948, remarked on the prophetic nature of this seemingly unassuming keyboard suite: "In the heyday of Impressionism...came the Flabby Preludes which in their linear austerity heralded the Neoclassic vogue which was to dominate Western music during the nineteen-twenties."[3]
- ^ Pierre-Daniel Templier, "Erik Satie", MIT Press, 1969, pp. 81-82. Translated from the original French edition published by Rieder, Paris, 1932.
- ^ Robert Orledge, "Satie the Composer", Cambridge University Press, 1990, p. 118.
- ^ Rollo H. Myers, "Erik Satie", Dover Publications, Inc., NY, 1968, p. 128. Originally published in 1948 by Denis Dobson Ltd., London.