Le Bœuf Angora

Le Bœuf Angora is scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 1 oboe, 1 cor anglais, 2 clarinets in A, 2 bassoons, 2 horns in F, 2 trumpets in C, 3 trombones, 1 tuba, percussion for 2 players (including timpani), and strings.

When Edgard Varèse claimed he "helped" with the orchestration of Cinq grimaces pour Le songe d'une nuit d'été in 1915, Satie permanently withdrew the suite.

[5][6][7] After his death the Le Bœuf Angora manuscripts were held by his music executor Darius Milhaud and since 1940 have resided in the archives of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Luxembourgian composer Johny Fritz reconstructed Le Bœuf Angora as a performing edition for solo piano, based on the original autographs and Satie's Trois morceaux transcription.

Together they produced 10 works over two periods (1886-1893, 1899-c.1901), with the author acting as Satie's lyricist (the Trois Mélodies of 1886), librettist (Uspud, Geneviève de Brabant), or muse (the Gymnopédies).

It appears they were no longer in contact by August 1905, when Satie removed his name from two unpublished cabaret tunes (Impérial-Oxford, Légende californienne,[8] dates unknown) and registered them with SACEM as "songs without lyrics".