Salut drapeau! (Hail to the Flag!), also known as Hymne Pour Le "Salut Drapeau", is an incidental music piece composed in November 1891 by Erik Satie for the historical drama Le Prince du Byzance by Joséphin Péladan. One of the more eccentric works of Satie's "Rosicrucian" period (1891–1895),[1] it was the first example of his "static sound décor" approach to theatre music. The score went unperformed in his lifetime and was not published until 1968. Its duration is roughly four minutes.
Satie alternately set Péladan's text for organ and a unison chorus of female voices, or for solo vocalist with piano accompaniment. Live performances and recordings have opted for the latter. He was also said to have composed a Prelude for the play, but it was either lost or never started.[2]
- ^ Patrick Gowers and Nigel Wilkins, "Erik Satie", The New Grove: Twentieth-Century French Masters, Macmillan Publishers Limited, London, 1986, p. 138. Reprinted from "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", 1980 edition.
- ^ Lindsey MacChiarella, Shades of Ungodliness: Satie, the Occult, and the Flight from Reason, master's thesis for the Florida State University College of Music, 2012, pp. 44-47, at https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:182991/datastream/PDF/view