Sonatine bureaucratique erik satie biography
Sonatine bureaucratique erik satie biography
Erik satie.
Sonatine bureaucratique
Piano composition by Erik Satie
The Sonatine bureaucratique (Bureaucraticsonatina) is a 1917 piano composition by Erik Satie.
The final entry in his humoristic piano music of the 1910s, it is Satie's only full-scale parody of a single musical work: the Sonatina Op. 36 N° 1 (1797) by Muzio Clementi.[1] In performance it lasts around 4 minutes.
Satie's modern, irreverent reinterpretations of 18th Century music in this little pastiche have been hailed as a notable forerunner of Neoclassicism, a trend that would dominate Western concert hall music in the years between the World Wars.[2][3][4][5]
Music and texts
Satie's sonatina, even shorter than Clementi's example, was composed in July 1917 and published the same year.
The composition is in three tiny movements, of which the last one exposes some pseudo-development: the motifs of the first half of that movement are rearranged in another sequen