This composer's later works include the score "Cinema" for the film Entr'acte, which accompanied his ballet Relache, and a work which parodied Muzio Clementi's Sonatina in C, the "Sonatine Bureaucratique.
This composer's later works include the score "Cinema" for the film Entr'acte, which accompanied his ballet Relache, and a work which parodied Muzio Clementi's Sonatina in C, the "Sonatine Bureaucratique." One of his works warns the performer that "it would be advisable to prepare oneself beforehand" since the motif must be played "840 times in succession." The influence of the Rosicrucians can be seen in his Mass of the Poor, and he used typewriters, airplane propellers, and ticker tape in a ballet with costumes by Pablo Picasso, Parade. He used four sopranos and a chamber orchestra for a work based on Plato's dialogues, Socrate. Characteristic titles of his include Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear and Desiccated Embryos, and his three Gnossiennes did not use bars or key signatures. FTP, name this composer best known for his set of three Gymnopedies.
This composer's later works include the score "Cinema" for the film Entr'acte, which accompanied his ballet Relache, and a work which parodied Muzio Clementi's Sonatina in C, the "Sonatine Bureaucratique.
Erik-Alfred-Leslie {Satie}