La statue retrouvée  La statue retrouvée ("The Discovered Statue") is a short composition for organ and trumpet by Erik Satie. Commissioned as a danced pièce d'occasion, it was originally set to a scenario by Jean Cocteau and featured choreography by Léonide Massine and costumes designed by Pablo Picasso. Its only performance in this form took place in Paris on May 30, 1923. The work is notable for reuniting the creative team behind Serge Diaghilev's landmark 1917 ballet "Parade". Today only Satie's music survives. In December 1922, Satie was invited by Count Étienne de Beaumont (1883-1956) and his wife Edith (1877-1952) to compose a "divertissement" for their upcoming annual masquerade ball, a glamorous high society affair. Its theme was "The Antiquity of Louis XIV" and the entertainment would consist of a series of musical tableaux vivants performed by select members among the distinguished guests. One of Satie's tasks was to help showcase the newly restored 18th Century pipe organ the couple had installed in the gilded music room of their Paris mansion. He had written nothing for the instrument since his (yet unperformed) 1895 "Messe des pauvres", but welcomed the challenge. Satie's frequent collaborator Cocteau managed to involve himself in the project, even though their relations were deteriorating by then. This would be their final work together, and it began with a disagreement. "I'm very surprised to see that [Cocteau] shares the prejudice of the masses against the organ," Satie wrote to Edith de Beaumont on December 26. "Odd, isn't it?...I very much hope to win him over to our cause - our good cause." Dismissing fears it would bring a somber note to the festivities, he added, "The organ isn't necessarily religious & funereal...Just remember the gilt-painted merry-go-round." One week later he was able to inform the Countess, "Jean just gave me a good idea concerning it (the "Divertissement")...It's not stupid, you'll see." Cocteau's scenario was set in the Rococo era and involved two young women searching for a mythical lost statue. When discovered the statue springs to life. The piece acquired additional prestige thanks to Satie's wide connections in the Parisian cultural scene.