Satie: Chamber Works

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Explore the complete catalog of Chamber compositions by Satie. This curated list includes composition years, historical Wikipedia context, and interactive audio to add specific tracks directly to your listening queue.

Title Year Actions
Air du Grand Prieur, for guitar
Choses vues à droite et à gauche; sans lunettes, for violin and piano

Choses vues à droite et à gauche (sans lunettes), commonly translated as Things Seen Right-to-Left (Without Glasses), is a suite for violin and piano by Erik Satie. Composed in January 1914 and published in 1916, it is the only work he produced for violin-piano duet. A typical performance lasts about 5 minutes.

La statue retrouvée, incidental music for trumpet and organ

In this list of Erik Satie's musical compositions, those series or sets comprising several pieces (e.g., Gnossienne 1, Gnossienne 2, etc.) with nothing but tempo indications to distinguish the movements by name, are generally given with the number of individual pieces simply stated in square brackets. If the pieces in a series have distinct titles, for example the 21 pieces in Sports et divertissements, all titles are given. Many of Satie's works were not published until many years after they were composed, including a considerable number first published posthumously. This article gives the known or approximate date of composition for each work.

Sonnerie pour réveiller le bon gros roi des singes, for 2 trumpets

Sonnerie pour réveiller le bon gros Roi des Singes (lequel ne dort toujours que d'un œil) (Fanfare for Waking Up the Big Fat King of the Monkeys [Who only Ever Sleeps with One Eye] ) is a fanfare for two trumpets in C composed in 1921 by Erik Satie. It was the last of his works to which he gave an outlandish title reminiscent of his "humoristic" vein. Eugene Goossens conducted the premiere at the Queen’s Hall in London on October 27, 1921. A performance lasts about a minute.