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Legend has it the Trois morceaux [en Forme de Poire] was Satie’s tongue-in-cheek response to Debussy’s advice that he should “pay more attention to form” in his music. Conductor Vladimir Golschmann recalled Satie telling him that “All I did…was to write Pieces in the Form of a Pear. I brought them to Debussy, who asked, ‘Why such a title?’ Why? Simply, my dear friend, because you cannot criticize my Pieces in the shape of a pear. If they are en forme de poire they cannot be shapeless.”
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Not really. Satie wrote to Debussy discussing the piece during its composition. He liked it. He named it to roast the “spoofed academic teaching of the kind he loathed during his studies at the Paris Conservatoire in the 1880s.” He just didn’t g-a-f.