This man's last piano works were his macabre-sounding Five Nocturnes.
This man's last piano works were his macabre-sounding Five Nocturnes. He wrote a ballet which depicts characters such as the Managers and the American Girl participating in the title event with a Chinese Conjuror and Acrobats.  This composer of Parade created an orchestral work depicting dances in a whimsical manner, the ironically-titled Serious Fantasy. This composer wrote three contrapuntal works with movements named "Idylle," "Aubade," and "Meditations" and mocked Muzio Clementi in Sonatine (*) Bureaucratique. This composer of Acant-dernieres pensees wrote a work for solo piano that parodies hunting and parlor songs and suggests melancholy crustaceans and sea cucumbers. This composer's most famous work, also for piano, is thought to have drawn from such diverse sources as Gustave Flaubert, cubism, and Greek festivals.  For 10 points, identify the French composer of Desiccated Embryos and Gymnopedies.
This man's last piano works were his macabre-sounding Five Nocturnes.
Erik Satie