Many of Satie's contemporaries spoke of his essentially childlike nature. He identified with children, and his respect for their innocence and naiveté has been related to his own quest for purity and directness in music. From 1908 to 1910 he ran a charity group in his hometown of Arcueil to take orphans and poorer boys and girls on country outings; and on Sunday mornings he gave them solfège lessons and improvised melodies with funny titles to make them laugh. This side of Satie found its most direct creative expression in the Enfantines, music his first biographer Pierre-Daniel Templier described as not "about children, or for children, but of a child."

Original Name Enfantines
Date of composition 1913 (October 22 1913)
Instruments Piano
Autotranslations beta Erik Satie: Children's pieces n°5 "Enfantillages pittoresques (Picturesque Child's Play)"
Erik Satie: Children's pieces n. 5 "Enfantillages pittoresques (Picturesque Child's Play)"
Erik Satie: Children's pieces Nr. 5 "Enfantillages pittoresques (Picturesque Child's Play)"