Le poisson rêveur
Composition by Erik Satie / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Le poisson rêveur (The Dreamy Fish) is an unfinished tone poem for solo piano composed between 1900 and 1901 by Erik Satie, based on a tale by "Lord Cheminot" (alias J. P. Contamine de Latour). The text does not survive and Satie's music went unpublished for decades. In performance the piece lasts about 6 minutes.
An experimental work, it is the only example of Satie trying his hand at the impressionist style of his friend Claude Debussy. Musicologist Robert Orledge observed, "The concept of Satie trying to imitate the revered Debussy is a touching one: it seems as if he was trying to compose Debussy out of his system..."[1]