Erik Satie

Socrate: Vocal Score Erik Satie French edition

Erik Satie's 'drame symphonique' was composed on a commission from the Princess Edmond de Polignac. Satie based his text on selections from the Plato works Symposium, Phaedrus, and Phaedo which mention the Greek philospher in the French translation by Victor Cousin. The work was first performed at the salon of Princess de Polignac in April of 1918 with soprano Jane Bathori singing all four roles and the composer at the piano. This new vocal score, produced in an easy-to-read format, is a digitally enhanced reissue of the one first issued in 1919 by Editions de la Sirene in Paris. The appendix includes an English translation of the relevant sections from Plato prepared by renowned classicist Benjamin Jowett.