Description
Erik Satie - Sonatine Bureaucratique
Performer: Pascal Rogé
Satie closely modelled his "Sonatine" about a day in the life of a bureaucrat, on Clementi's Sonatina in C Op.36 no 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Ksi...). Here Satie returns to barlines, rests and key signatures for good (after their occasional use in works like the "Enfantines").
It was the nearest Satie came to pastiche, as well as an early example of quirky neo-classicism, which Stravinsky and the composers of "Les Six" soon adopted.
The marking "Vivache" (sic) for the Finale is a typical Satie joke. The passages in parallel fourths and fifths (like bars 33-36, 98-99 for the Finale) feature increasingly in Satie's later works.