Biographer Rollo H. Myers placed the Pièces froides high among Satie's piano works, writing, "Only a born musician of the finest sensibility could have conceived these limpid and so essentially 'musical' pieces which ought to be in the repertory of every pianist who is more interested in music than virtuosity."

Original Name Pièces froides
Date of composition 1897
First published 1912
Approx. duration 15 minutes
Instruments Piano
Autotranslations beta Erik Satie: Cold Pieces
Erik Satie: Cold Pieces
Erik Satie: Cold Pieces