Editing Socrate (section)

{{Short description|Composition by Erik Satie}}
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[[File:Satie Cropped.jpg|thumb|[[Erik Satie]], circa 1919]]

'''''Socrate''''' is a work for voice and piano (or small orchestra) by [[Erik Satie]]. First published in 1919 for voice and piano, in 1920 a different publisher reissued the piece "revised and corrected".<ref name="Rathert">[[Wolfgang Rathert]] and [[Andreas Traub]], "Zu einer bislang unbekannten Ausgabe des 'Socrate' von Erik Satie", in ''[[Die Musikforschung]]'', Jg. 38 (1985), booklet 2, {{pp.|118–121}}.</ref> A third version of the work exists, for small orchestra and voice, for which the manuscript has disappeared and which is available now only in print. The text is composed of excerpts of [[Victor Cousin]]'s translation of [[Plato]]'s dialogues, all of the chosen texts referring to [[Socrates]].