Jack in the Box (Satie) Derain, and the music orchestrated by Satie's friend Darius Milhaud. The ballet received mainly negative comments: French critics called it "banal", while English critics decried it as "pert but hollow." It was also published as a short suite for solo piano in the form in which Satie left it. The piano and orchestral versions have both received numerous recordings. The work has three short movements, lasting less than seven minutes: All the movements are in C major, and all undergo many time changes between and , the changes often lasting for only a single measure at a time. The music
Edgard Milhaud Edgard Milhaud Edgard Milhaud (14 April 1873 – 4 September 1964) was a French professor of economics, a militant socialist and a promoter and theoretician of social economy. Isaac Edgard Milhaud was born on 14 April 1873 in Nîmes, Gard, France. His parents were Jassuda Léon Milhaud (1839–1901) and Marie Victoire dite Sarah Cerf (1850–1901). From 1892 to 1896 he studied in Pars at the Sorbonne, Collège de France and Faculté de Droit, studying philosophy, sociology and political economy. He received his "agrégation" in philosophy in 1895. He studied in Germany in 1896–99, inquiring into the workers' movement the basis