Satie, Erik. (1866–1925)
En habit de Cheval (à 4 mains)
Paris: Rouart, Lerolle & Cie.. 1911. First Edition. Four pieces for piano 4-hands by the eccentric French composer. Unbound upright folio. Lithographed. [PN] R.9832. L. & Cie. 13 pp. Original orange wrappers. In modern case. 14 x 11 inches (35.2 x 27.5 cm). Wrappers very brittle and detached, with slight loss and early repair to spine; else, a fine copy.The four pieces of this cycle from 1911, whose title translates as "in riding gear" (meaning the horse's not the rider's, as Satie emphasized), are named Choral, Fugue litanique, Autre choral and Fugue de papier. Satie orchestrated the work a few months later. According to British musicologist Robert Orledge, "En habit de cheval offers the best example of Satie integrating Schola [Cantorum] teaching with his own composition, and in it he also worked out his own individual concept of orchestration." (Schola Cantorum was the private music school in Paris that Satie attended from 1905 to 1912.) (22229)