About the work
La Belle Excentrique (The Eccentric Beauty or The Beautiful Eccentric Lady) is a dance suite for small orchestra by French composer Erik Satie. A parody of music hall clichés, it was conceived as a choreographic stage work and by modern standards can be considered a ballet. Satie gave it the whimsical subtitle Fantaisie sérieuse ("A Serious Fantasy"). It was premiered at the Théâtre du Colisée in Paris on June 14, 1921, conducted by Vladimir Golschmann. The composer later arranged it for piano four hands.
From the Wikipedia article “La Belle Excentrique”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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