Slippedisc daily comfort zone (80): And so say all of us
Daily Comfort ZoneThe third of Erik Satie’s Vieux sequins et vielles cuirasses turns out to be a variation on For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.
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He was such an original, with his cubist music. His humour inspired many other young composers to take irreverent distance from the recent top achievements of Debussy, Ravel and the early Stravinsky, achievements so great that they blocked any other aspiring talents. But Satie showed they could simply begin as from scratch, and so they did (Les Six).
Actually the old French folk tune “Marlbrouck va t’en guerre”. Beethoven used it in “Wellington’s Victory” to represent Napoleon’s army.
That “French folk tune” also sounds a lot like an American children’s song called “The Bear Went Over the Mountain.”