Erik Satie - Le Piège de Méduse (1/2)

Le Piège de Méduse, dances for piano (1913) Hubert Deschamps Joseph-Marie Falcucci Marie Laurence Pierre Bertin Orchestre Des Concerts Lamou...Le Piège de Méduse, dances for piano (1913) Hubert Deschamps Joseph-Marie Falcucci Marie Laurence Pierre Bertin Orchestre Des Concerts Lamoureux Aldo Ciccolini Le piège de Méduse (“Medusa’s trap“) is a short play of which Erik Satie wrote both the text and the incidental music. The text of the play was written as a “comédie lyrique“ in one act, February-March 1913. In June of the same year Satie added the music, a set of seven little dances, originally composed for piano. The piano version of the music was first published in 1929, a few years after the composer’s death. The orchestral score was not published until 40 years later. The comically surrealist plot involves the elderly (and very confused) Baron Méduse (his name means Medusa in French), his daughter Frisette (to whom the Baron actually refers as his “fille de lait“, which wo