Jens Rosteck

Between 1889 and 1897, Satie composed a series of piano pieces which he gave the erratic title 'Gnossiennes' and provided with deliberately ironic performance instructions in which he satirizes the ex...

In 1903, Satie composed his famous four-hand piano cycle with the provocative and ambiguous title "3 Morceaux en forme de Poire" ("poire" can mean "pear" in French, but also "fool"), a distanced and i...

Satie's "Ogives" and "Gymnopédies" are milestones of musical modernism. The metrically free "Ogives" (pointed arches) reflect the influence of French neo-Gothic and neo-Gregorianism in architecture an...

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With his parodistic piano pieces about all kinds of sea creatures - with the grotesque title "Dried-up Embryos" - composed in the summer of 1913, Satie once again poked fun at himself and the musical...

Mit seinen im Sommer 1913 entstandenen parodistischen Klavierstücken über allerlei Seegetier - mit dem grotesken Titel 'Vertrocknete Embryos' machte sich Satie einmal mehr über sich und die Musikwelt...

The atmospheric cycle "Penultimate Thoughts" from 1915 belongs to the type of Satie's "story pieces" with underlying text phrases. The curious playing instructions of the three miniatures based on ost...

Between 1889 and 1897, Satie composed a series of piano pieces which he gave the erratic title 'Gnossiennes' and provided with deliberately ironic performance instructions in which he satirizes the ex...