Sonatine bureaucratique

[7] Satie dedicated the Sonatine bureaucratique "with friendship" to the gifted young pianist Juliette Méerovitch (1896-1920),[8][9] who gave its first public performance at the Salle Huyghens in Paris on December 1, 1917.

[10] A student of Alfred Cortot, Méerovitch won first prize in piano at the Paris Conservatoire in 1911 and was a vigorous champion of modern French music.

She had previously teamed with Satie for the concert premiere of his ballet Parade in its piano 4-hands version in July 1917, the same month he wrote his sonatina.

Author Jean Cocteau nicknamed her "The Piano Tamer"[11] and future Les Six members Germaine Tailleferre, Francis Poulenc and Louis Durey dedicated works to her.

Pierre-Daniel Templier (1932) relegated it to a footnote in his book,[15] while Rollo H. Myers (1948) thought it was "not remarkable musically except as a fairly successful but unexciting pastiche".