6/27/2023 0 Comments Shattuck the banquet years![]() Satie's friend Claude Debussy had long lobbied the Société Nationale de Musique (SNM) to perform his music, even though the group's director Ernest Chausson reportedly "almost fainted" after looking through some of the scores. ![]() These conditions were hardly conducive to composing, but one prospect gave him hope over the bitter 1896–97 winter. The space was so small that Satie's camp bed all but blocked the door shut, and on frigid nights he kept warm by sleeping fully dressed with the rest of his clothing piled on top of him. In July 1896, he had been forced to move from his room at 6 Rue Cortot into an unheated ground floor closet (he called it a "cupboard") in the same building, which the landlord offered him for 20 francs per quarter. ![]() The title Pièces froides-which can also be translated as Cold Rooms or Cold Cuts -has been viewed as a punning allusion to the dire poverty Satie experienced during his last years living in Montmartre. 6 Rue Cortot in Montmartre, Paris, where Satie lived from 1890 to 1898. ![]()
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