In the summer of 1913 Satie once more poked fun at himself and the world of music with a set of parodic piano pieces on various marine animals, 
giving it the grotesque title “Embryons desséchés” (Desiccated Embryos).<br>
The notation without barlines, the ‘stories’ beneath the music and the spoofs
of well-known pieces of music, most strikingly the Funeral March from Chopin’s Piano “Sonata in B-flat minor”, make the work a barrel of musical fun.<br>
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This Urtext edition faithfully adheres to the sources and reflects the latest findings of Satie scholarship. It contains translations of all of Satie’s French texts, practical page-turns, notes on performance practice by Satie specialist Steffen Schleiermacher and an informative Foreword.<br>
The pieces range from an easy to moderate level of difficulty and provide an ideal additional varied repertoire for teaching purposes.<br>