Satie, Erik

here titled "Tendrement", notated in black ink for voice and piano, without words, in A major, in alternating polka (2/4) and waltz (3/4) metres, on four three-stave systems per page, with additions and markings in red ink, including the title, inscription ("Erik Satie"), the repeat, the clefs and time-signatures [c.1905-1906],

2 pages, folio (c.35 x 26.8cm), written on rectos only, 22-stave paper (blind-stamped Lard Esnault Bellamy), together with a photograph of Pauline Darty, for whom Satie composed a waltz-song called "Tendrement", light overall browning, small tears to margins,

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UNPUBLISHED. This waltz-song is quite different from any of the pieces Satie published under the name "Tendrement".  Satie wrote this song for Pousse l'amour in 1905, a lost operetta he wrote in collaboration with Maurice de Féraudy and Jean Kolb.  He composed the music between late 1905 and April 1906, but it survives only as a few drafts like this one.   Indeed, de Féraudy's words for the operetta are completely lost, except for those recorded in Satie's early pencil sketch on the verso of the piano-waltz in C (see Lot 141 above).  Other drafts & sketches for this waltz-song can be found at the Bibliothèque Nationale MS 9642 and in the Houghton Library 193; for some excerpts in piano score, see S.M. Whiting's book Satie the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert Hall, (1999), pp.318-319.   The operetta was given at the Comédie-Royale on 22 April 1907, and revived for the autumn season and the next year in Nice and Monte Carlo.