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.
Piano music
Series
Individual pieces
Posthumous collections
Some of Satie's early and/or unpublished works, as well as drafts and exercises, were published in the second half of the 20th century. These included (but were not limited to) the following collections:
- Gnossiennes 4-6 (1889-1897)
- Douze Petits Chorals pour Piano (1906 to 1909, Révision par Robert Caby, Edition Salabert, 1968)
- Musiques intimes et secrètes, three pieces from 1906 to 1913:
- # Nostalgie
- # Froide songerie
- # Fâcheux exemple
- Six Pièces de la période, six pieces from 1906 to 1913:
- # Désespoir agréable
- # Both of Deux choses
- # Prélude canin from 2 préludes pour un chien
- # Minuet exercises: Profondeur and Songe-creux
- Carnet d'Esquisses et de Croquis, some 20 sketches and fragments from 1897 to 1914
- # "Coucher de soleil du sommeil"
- # "Eaux troublées"
- # "Deuil"
- # "Lignes dans le sable"
- # "Ondulation"
- # "Champ"
- # "Transparence"
- # "Le Mur de VerreâÂÂ
- # "Traces de lignes"
- # "Fin soudaine"
- # "Prochaines étapes"
Orchestral
- Danse, for small orchestra (1890; arranged as movement 6 of 3 Morceaux en forme de poire)
- Le BÃ
Âuf Angora (1901, unfinished; arranged for piano by Johny Fritz)
- Musique d'ameublement (1918)
- # Tapisserie en fer forgé, for flute, clarinet, trumpet and strings
- # Carrelage phonique, for flute, clarinet and strings
- Trois petites pièces montées (1920)
- Musique d'ameublement: tenture de cabinet préfectoral, for small orchestra (1923)
Other instrumental music
Dramatic works
- Salut drapeau!, hymn for Le Prince de Byzance ("drame romanesque"), for voice(s) and/or piano/organ (1891)
- 3 act-preludes for Le Fils des étoiles ("pastorale kaldéenne"), for flutes and harps (1891; later arranged for piano)
- 2 preludes for Le Nazaréen ("drame ésotérique"), for piano (1892)
- Uspud ("ballet chrétien"), scored for piano, with indications for flutes, harps and strings (1892)
- Prélude de la porte héroïque du ciel ("drame ésotérique"), for piano (1894)
- Jack in the Box, three pieces for a pantomime, for piano (1899)
- Geneviève de Brabant, theatre piece for soloists, chorus and piano (c. 1900)
- Petit prélude de 'La Mort de Monsieur Mouche' (play), for piano (1900)
- Pousse l'amour (operetta) (1905âÂÂ6; lost)
- Monkey dances [7] for Le Piège de Méduse ("lyric comedy"), for piano (1913)
- Les Pantins dansent ("poème dansé"), for piano or small orchestra (1913)
- Cinq grimaces pour Le songe d'une nuit d'été, incidental music for a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, for orchestra (1915)
- Parade ("ballet réaliste"), for orchestra (1916âÂÂ17; additional movements 1919)
- La belle excentrique ("fantaisie sérieuse"), for orchestra or piano 4 hands (1921); some movements later arranged for solo piano; one movement based on Légende californienne)
- La statue retrouvée (divertissement), for organ and trumpet (1923)
- Scènes nouvelles [9] for Gounod's Le médecin malgré lui, for soloists and orchestra (1923)
- Mercure, ballet, for orchestra (1924)
- Relâche ("ballet instantanéiste"), for orchestra (1924)
Vocal music
Large-scale works
- Messe des pauvres, for SB chorus and organ (1893âÂÂ95)
- Socrate ("drame symphonique"), for soloists and chamber orchestra or piano (1917âÂÂ18)
Songs
Cabaret songs
- Un dîner àl'Elysée (1899)
- Le veuf (1899âÂÂ1900; two versions)
- Petit recueil des fêtes (1903âÂÂ04)
- # Le picador est mort
- # Sorcière
- # Enfant-martyre
- # Air fantôme
- J'avais un ami (1904)
- Les bons mouvements (1904)
- Douceur d'oublier (1904)
- Impérial-Oxford (c. 1905)
- Légende californienne (c.1905; used in La belle excentrique)
- L'omnibus automobile (1905)
- Chez le docteur (1905)
- Allons-y Chochotte (1905)
- Rambouillet (Une réception àRambouillet) (1907; survives without lyrics)
- Les oiseaux (Il nous prêtent leurs noms) (1907; survives without lyrics)
- Marienbad (Il portait un gilet) (1907; survives without lyrics)
- Psitt! Psitt! (1907)
- La chemise (Dépaquit) (1909; three versions)
Compositions with multiple arrangements
- Trois sonneries de la Rose+Croix [3], fanfares for trumpets, harps and/or, possibly, orchestra (1892); version for solo piano (1892)
- Poudre d'or (1901): versions for orchestra and for solo piano
- Tendrement (1902): versions for voice and piano (cabaret song), for solo piano, and for orchestra
- Illusion (1902, after the song Tendrement): versions for orchestra and for solo piano
- Je te veux (published 1903): versions for voice and piano (cabaret song), for solo piano, and for orchestra
- La Diva de l'Empire (1904): versions for voice and piano (cabaret song), for solo piano (as Intermezzo américain, arrangement by H. Ourdine), and for orchestra
- Le Piccadilly (1904): versions for piano and strings, and for solo piano
- En habit de cheval (1911): versions for piano 4 hands and for orchestra
- # Choral
- # Fugue litanique
- # Autre choral
- # Fugue de papier
- L'aurore aux doigts de rose (1916): versions for orchestra and for piano 4 hands
- Trois petites pièces montées (1920): originally for orchestra; reduction for piano 4 hands published in 1920, orchestral score published in 1921
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