Sonneries de la Rose+Croix

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Trois Sonneries de la Rose+Croix ("Three Sonneries of the Rose+Cross") is a piano composition by Erik Satie, first published in 1892, while he was composer and chapel-master of the Rosicrucian "Ordre de la Rose-Croix Catholique, du Temple et du Graal", led by Sâr Joséphin Péladan.

Other ways of transcribing the title of this work include Sonneries de la Rose + Croix, Trois Sonneries de la Rose-Croix and Sonneries de la Rose†Croix.

The composition has three movements, totalling about 11 minutes execution time:

Air de l'Ordre ("Air of the Order")
Air du Grand Maître ("Air of the Grand-Master", i.e. Sâr Péladan)
Air du Grand Prieur ("Air of the Grand-Prior", i.e. Count Antoine de La Rochefoucauld)

A composition dated 20 January 1891, having only Modéré (Moderato) marked on the score, is generally known as Première Pensée Rose+Croix, after its first publication in 1968.

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