Suite (music) at the age of 23. In the late 19th century, Sibelius's "Karelia Suite" was written for the students of the Helsinki university. Brought on by Impressionism, the piano suite was reintroduced by early 20th-century French composers such as Ravel and Debussy. Debussy's "Pour le piano" is a suite in three movements, published in 1901, and his "Suite bergamasque", revised in 1905, is probably one of the most famous suites, especially the third movement, "Clair de Lune". Ravel is particularly well known for his "Miroirs" suite for piano and lesser known for "Le tombeau de Couperin", both requiring tremendous skill and
Choses vues à droite et à gauche (sans lunettes) aside, Satie was painstaking in his efforts to redevelop these old musical forms in modern terms, harmonically and structurally. He rejected the first movement he completed, an untitled 31-bar chorale in G Major, and experimented with several fugue subjects (including a quotation of the folksong "Au clair de la lune") for the "Fugue à tâtons". In his analysis of Satie's composing methods Robert Orledge remarked on "how ordinary his first thoughts often were", and this certainly applies to the "Choses vues". Satie's original order for the pieces - "Fantaisie", "Choral", "Fugue" - would have given the suite a conventional fast-slow-fast