Embryons Desséchés
''Embryons desséchés'' ("''Desiccated embryos''") is a piano composition by Erik Satie, composed in the summer of 1913. The composition consists of three little "movements", each taking about two to three minutes to play. The music The parts of the composition are: 1. ''(Desiccated embryo) of a Holothurian'' (30 June 1913), dedicated to Suzanne Roux: :* See: sea cucumber. This type of animal has no eyes. :* The music of this first part of the composition concentrates on the so-called "purring" of the holothurian, besides making fun of Loïsa Puget's song ''Mon rocher de Saint-Malo'' ("My rock of Saint-Malo" – a then popular salon composition, which Satie had probably played numerous times in his cabaret pianist career). That this song is intended is already suggested by the introduction: Satie writes above the score, " ..I observed a Holothurian in the bay of Saint-Malo." Further he writes following remarks in the score, when "quoting" the melody of the song: "What a nice ...
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