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Airs a faire fuir no.2 (version plus chromatique) (2)
A l'occasion d'une grande peine (1)
Allegro (1884) (5)
Allons-y, chochotte! (3)
Apercus desagreables (piano 4 hands) (6)
Autres Melodies (3) (1886-1906) (1)
Avant-dernieres pensees (3) (22)
» Aubade
Avertissement de l'auteur (1)
Breves (1)
Caresse (12)
Carnet d'esquisses et de croquis (6)
Chanson (1886) (2)
Chanson andalouse (pour 'Pousse l'amour') (4)
Chanson hongroise (3)
Chanson medievale (2)
Chapitres tournes en tous sens (12)
Chez le docteur (2)
Chorale: Nun ruhen alle Walder (JS Bach, harm. Satie) (2)
Choses vue a droite et a gauche (sans lunettes) (5)
Cinema: Entr'acte symphonique from the ballet 'Relache' (transcr. for piano four hands by Darius Milhaud) (4)
Cinema: Entr'acte symphonique from the ballet 'Relache' (2)
Cinema (2)
Cinq grimaces pour 'Le songe d'une nuit d'ete' (arr. Milhaud for piano) (1)
Cinq grimaces pour 'Le songe d'une nuit d'ete' (2)
Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois (16)
Danse de travers no.1 (3)
Danse de travers no.2 (2)
Danse de travers (4)
Danses de travers (3) (arr. for woodwind quintet) (1)
Danses de travers (3) (2)
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» no.3
Danses gothiques (9) (12)
Descriptions automatiques (15)
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» no.3
Desespoir agreable (1)
Embarquement pour Cythere (3)
Embryons desseches (15)
Enfantillages pittoresques (Enfantines II) (6)
En habit de cheval: Divertissement pour piano a quatre mains (8)
Exercice pour quatuor a cordes (2)
Fantaisie-valse (12)
Fete donnee par les chevaliers normands en l'honneur d'une jeune demoiselle (2)
Feu d'artifice (1)
Fugue-valse (4)
Gambades (1)
Genevieve de Brabant (2)
Gnossiennes (6) (80)
» no.4
» no.5
» no.6
Gnossiennes (7) (2)
» no.7
Gymnopedies (3) (arr. Abrahamsen for oboe and string quartet) (1)
Gymnopedies (3) (arr. Debussy) (5)
Gymnopedies (3) (arr. Luca Ciammarughi) (1)
Gymnopedies (3) (124)
Harmonies (3) (2)
Heures seculaires et instantanees (10)
Illusion (2)
Imperial-Oxford (1905) (1)
J'avais un ami (2)
Jack-in-the-box (arr. Darius Milhaud) (1)
Jack in the Box (11)
Java Martienne (1)
Je te veux (arr. Jarle Storlokken) (1)
Je te veux (39)
L'Enfance de Ko-quo (Recommandations maternelles) (4)
L'omnibus automobile (4)
La Belle Excentrique (piano 4 hands) (2)
La Belle Excentrique (13)
La Chemise (1909) (1)
La Diva de l'Empire (arr. Hans Ourdine) (1)
La Diva de l'Empire (arr. Luca Ciammarughi) (1)
La Diva de l'Empire (20)
» Marche
La Porte heroique du ciel: Prelude (1)
La Statue de bronze (1)
La Statue retrouvee: divertissement (arr. Steffen Schleiermacher for piano) (1)
La Statue retrouvee: divertissement for trumpet in C and piano (2)
La Statue retrouvee: incidental music (1)
Le Boeuf Angora (1)
Le Chapelier (1)
Le Fils des Etoiles, Wagnerie kaldeenne du Sar Peladan (1)
Le Fils des etoiles (1892) (7)
Le Fils des etoiles (arr. Takemitsu) (1)
Le Fils des etoiles: 3 Preludes (10)
Le Fils des etoiles: Gnossienne (Gnossienne 7) (2)
Le Golf (version 1) (1)
Le Piccadilly (La Transatlantique) (21)
Le Piege de Meduse (Sept 'toutes petites danses') (18)
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» no.2
» no.4
» no.7
Le Poisson reveur (The Dreamy Fish) (2)
Le Tennis (version 1) (1)
Le Veuf (1899) (1)
Legende californienne (1)
Leit-motiv du 'Panthee' (6)
Les Trois Valses distinguees du precieux degoute (12)
Les oiseaux (1)
Les pantins dansent (10)
Ludions (9)
Marienbad (1)
Melodies (3) (1886) (6)
Melodies (3) (1887) (6)
Melodies (3) (1916) (13)
Melodies (4) (1)
Melodies sans paroles (3) (1902) (2)
Memoires d'un amnesique (1)
Menuet a Claude Dubosq (1)
Menus propos enfantins (Enfantines I) (5)
Mercure (8)
Messe des Pauvres (5)
Modere (1893) (1)
Monkey dances (7) for Le Piege de Meduse (1)
Morceaux en forme de poire (3) (18)
» Redite
Musique d'ameublement (4)
Musique rosicrucienne (1)
Musiques intimes et secretes (8)
Nocturne no.6 (2)
Nocturnes (5) (20)
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» no.5
Nouvelles Enfantines (3) (5)
Nouvelles Pieces froides (3) (6)
Oeuvres de Jeunesse (1)
Ogives (4) (17)
» no.2
» no.4
Pages mystiques (6)
Parade (arr. Steffen Schleiermacher for piano) (1)
Parade (16)
Passacaille (8)
Peccadilles importunes (Enfantines III) (5)
Petite musique de clown triste (4)
Petite ouverture a danser (17)
Petites Pieces (3) montees (6)
Petites melodies (4) (5)
Petite sonate (1)
Petit recueil des fetes (2)
Petits chorals (12) (9)
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» no.6a
Piece Rose+Croix sans titre - ? Marche (1)
Pieces (6) de la periode 1906-13 (6)
Pieces froides (6) (25)
Pieces froides I (3) 'Airs a faire fuir' (4)
Pieces froides II (3) 'Danses de travers' (6)
Poemes d'amour (3) (4)
Poudre d'or (15)
Prelude d'Eginhard (2)
Prelude de 'La mort de Monsieur Mouche' (4)
Prelude de la porte heroique du ciel (13)
Prelude du 'Nazareen' (4)
Prelude en tapisserie (10)
Preludes (4) (7)
Preludes du 'Fils des Etoiles' (1)
Preludes flasques (pour un chien) (7)
Premier Menuet (11)
Premiere pensee Rose+Croix (12)
Priere (4)
Quartet no.1 (sketch) (1)
Quartet no.2 (sketch) (3)
Rag-Time Parade (arr. H Ourdine) (3)
Rag-Time Parade (arr. Luca Ciammarughi) (1)
Ragtime Parade (5)
Rambouillet (1)
Relache (6)
Reverie de l'Enfance de Pantagruel (4)
Reverie du pauvre (9)
Reveries nocturnes (2) (5)
Salut drapeau! (Hymn for Le Prince du Byzance) (4)
San Bernardo (1)
Sans titre, peut-etre pour la Messe des pauvres (3)
Sarabandes (3) (19)
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» no.2
» no.3
Socrate: Drame symphonique (transcr. for two pianos by John Cage with Gabriella Morelli) (2)
Socrate (4)
Sonatine bureaucratique (a Juliette Meerovitch) (1)
Sonatine bureaucratique (17)
Songe-creux (2)
Sonnerie pour reveiller le bon gros Roi des Singes (2)
Sonneries de la Rose+Croix (17)
Sports et Divertissements (20)
Tango perpetuel (2)
Tendrement (9)
The Angora Ox (4)
The Dreamy Fish (7)
Trois Morceaux (7) en forme de poire (1)
Trois autre Melodies (1886-1906) (1)
Un diner a l'Elysee (1899) (1)
Upsud, ballet chretien en 3 actes (1)
Uspud (Ballet chretien en 3 actes) (6)
Valse-ballet (10)
Valses (3) distinguees du precieux degoute (6)
Veritables preludes flasques (pour un chien) (15)
Verset laique et somptueux (5)
Vexations (13)
Vieux sequins et vieilles cuirasses (12)

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925) — he signed his name Erik Satie after 1884 — was a French composer and pianist. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde. His work was a precursor to later artistic movements such as minimalism, repetitive music, and the Theatre of the Absurd.

An eccentric, Satie was introduced as a "gymnopedist" in 1887, shortly before writing his most famous compositions, the Gymnopédies. Later, he also referred to himself as a "phonometrician" (meaning "someone who measures sounds") preferring this designation to that of a "musician", after having been called "a clumsy but subtle technician" in a book on contemporary French composers published in 1911.

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