Furniture music

Indications of the intentions of the artists giving the first performance are found in the manuscript of the score: Furnishing divertissement organised by the group of musicians known as the "Nouveaux Jeunes"

--quoted in Gillmor, 1988, p 325-326 See also the Entr'acte article for more details regarding the circumstances of this first, and only documented, public performance of furniture music during Satie's lifetime, assisted by the composer himself.

For a quarter of a century after the composer's death, all of the furniture music pieces remained hidden from the general public, apart from being mentioned in early Satie biographies.

By the end of the 1960s parts of the furniture music started to appear as facsimile illustrations to press articles and new Satie biographies.

These and other related ideas were picked up by several composers of the neoclassical/20th-century school of music,[citation needed] accentuating atmosphere and texture over traditional form and movement.