Erik Satie ~1897~ Pièces Froides, Airs à faire fuir, n°1

Let us hear Charles Koechlin, who said, about the “Pièces froides“ (Cold pieces): “This complete lack of romantism, that sort of rhytmic indolence, the sweet, expressive, fine, and nonchalant persuasion that emanated, the return, by original ways, to old French traditions and the nostalgic evocations of the past which Debussy was to take a few years later: we see this day, by the passage of time, all he had to invention in the precursor. »