Je te veux
in A♭ major
Erik Satie 1866–1925
A♭ major
Key
Valse lente
Tempo
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Themes & character
Parisian cafe waltz·Popular song origins·Lightest side of Satie·Sentimental melody
At a glance
- Key
- A♭ major
- Tempo / character
- Valse lente
About the piece
A slow waltz composed around 1897 for the cabaret singer Paulette Darty, originally a song with words by Henry Pacory, and one of the lightest, most conventionally charming pieces Satie ever wrote. It belongs to the world of the Parisian cafe-concert rather than the concert hall.
Its warm, sentimental melody and gentle waltz rhythm show a completely different side of Satie from the austere Gymnopedies, written around the same period of his life.
The composer
Erik Satie
1866–1925
Eric Alfred Leslie Satie, better known as Erik Satie, was a French composer and pianist. The son of a French father and a British mother, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire but was undistinguished and did not obtain a diploma. In the 1880s he worked as a pianist in café-cabarets in Montmartre, Paris, and began composing works, mostly for solo piano, such as his Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes. He also wrote music for a Rosicrucian sect to which he was briefly attached.
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