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Trois petites pièces montées
The ''Trois petites pièces montées'' (''Three Little Stuffed Pieces'') is a suite for small orchestra by Erik Satie, inspired by themes from ''Gargantua and Pantagruel'' by François Rabelais. It was premiered at the Comédie des Champs-Élysées in Paris on February 21, 1920, conducted by Vladimir Golschmann. Satie later arranged it for piano duet and today it is more frequently heard in this version. A typical performance lasts about five minutes.
==Background==
Satie was well-read in humorous and imaginative literature, and the figure of Rabelais loomed large in his bohemian youth. The 16th Century French satirist was an idol of the early Montmartre cabaret scene; at the Chat Noir, where Satie played piano in the late 1880s, a drinking cup allegedly belonging to the author was on reverent display.〔Harper's Magazine, Volume 78, 1889, p. 702.〕 Recalling those days in a 1922 essay, Satie went so far as to claim that one of his great-uncles used to "bend the elbow" with Rabelais at the legendary Pomme de Pin tavern in Paris.〔In his essay "Painful Examples" (''Catalogue'' No. 5, October 1922). See Nigel Wilkins (ed.), "The Writings of Erik Satie", Eulenburg Books, London, 1980, pp. 121-122.〕 Apart from a song about the Mad Hatter, ''Le chapelier'' from the ''3 Mélodies'' (1916), the only comic literary characters Satie evoked in his music were the endlessly hungry and boozing giants Gargantua and his son Pantagruel.〔Among Satie's unrealized projects were ballets based on La Fontaine's ''Fables'' and Lewis Carroll's ''Alice in Wonderland''.〕
Food and eating were frequent themes of Satie's own extramusical humor. His poverty made him uncomfortably familiar with hunger at times,〔In letters to his brother Conrad during the Spring of 1899 Satie noted "I haven't eaten for two days" and "an empty stomach, a parched throat, give me no pleasure whatsoever"; in similar straits 20 years later he wrote to Valentine Hugo, "I'm sick of this beggar's life." See Ornella Volta (ed)., "Satie Seen Through His Letters", Marion Boyars Publishers, London, 1989, p. 78, and "Erik Satie: Correspondance presque complete", Fayard, Paris, 2003.〕 leading to his wry observation, "It's odd. You'll find someone in every bar willing to buy you a drink. No one ever dreams of presenting you with a sandwich."〔Renée Lanser, "Notes et souvenirs - Erik Satie", ''Matin d'Anvers'', 9 July 1925.〕 According to his brother Conrad, the composer's appetite was gargantuan on those occasions when he was able to eat to his heart's content: he could devour a 30-egg omelette or 150 oysters in one sitting.〔Robert Orledge, "Satie the Composer", Cambridge University Press, 1990, p. 15.〕 His affinity for the bawdy, food-obsessed Rabelais is made clear in the ''Trois petites pièces montées''.
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