All his life, Sauguet had been in touch with artists of diμerent generations and backgrounds: composers of course, interpreters, choreographers and dancers, poets, actors, painters and decorators, film-makers…He often spoke of his many friendships as constituting, in his mind, a spiritual family, to which he had written many pages of occasion, tributes and testimonies (Prélude à une exposition de peinture, for a premiere at the Rive Gauche art-gallery in 1937; Toast pour Henry Barraud to celebrate his achievement within the French radio institutions; 80 notes clavecines, written for the 80th birthday of Wanda Landowska).
In October 1982, Henri Sauguet wrote Quelques trilles pour les Treilles for Mrs. Grunner-Schlumberger as a tribute. This composition is an echo of the pastoral atmosphere of her property near Bordeaux, “Les Treilles” (The Vine arbour), that filled Sauguet with wonder.
(translation Philippe Do)
Traversières magazine
- ISMN: 9790231800500 (M231800500)
