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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Commission – composition
- Form
- Music
- Text
- Part I – Portrait of Socrates
- Part II – On the banks of the Ilissus
- Part III – Death of Socrates
- Whiteness
- Reception
- Early performances
- Reception in music, theatre and art history
- Recordings
- See also
- References
thumb|Erik Satie, circa 1919
Socrate is a work for voice and piano (or small orchestra) by Erik Satie. First published in 1919 for voice and piano, in 1920 a different publisher reissued the piece "revised and corrected". A third version of the work exists, for small orchestra and voice, for which the manuscript has disappeared and which is available now only in print. The text is composed of excerpts of Victor Cousin's translation of Plato's dialogues, all of the chosen texts referring to Socrates.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Socrate” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.