Erik Satie 1913 Embryons Desséchés

In introduction to this score, Satie writes: This work is absolutely incomprehensible, even to me. Of a singular depth, it always amazes me. I wrote it in spite of myself, driven by destiny. Maybe I wanted to be humorous It would not surprise me and would be quite in my way. However, I will have no mercy for they who would ignore. May they know The first dryedup embryo is about a sea cucumber observed in the Bay of SaintMalo, and Satie parodies here a 1830 French song Mon rocher de SaintMalo ( my rock of SaintMalo, The parodic final cadence is grandiose and deliberately pompous. The second embryo does not parody, famous Schubert Mazurka, as written in the score, but the famous funeral march from Chopin s sonata Elements of his posthumous funeral march (1837, No. 2) can also be found. The third embryo quotes the French song Good King Dagobert ( quot