La belle excentrique
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La belle excentrique (The Eccentric Beauty) 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.[1][2] Satie gave it the whimsical subtitle "fantaisie sérieuse" ("A Serious Fantasy"). It was premiered at the Théâtre du Colisée[3] in Paris on June 14, 1921, conducted by Vladimir Golschmann. The composer later arranged it for piano four hands.