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Erik Satie was a French composer and pianist who lived from 1866 to 1925 and created a distinctive body of musical work during a transformative period in classical music. His compositions and innovative approach to music continue to influence how composers think about simplicity, repetition, and the purpose of music in everyday life.
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Person · Open Library
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- 1866-05-17
- Died
- 1925-06-01
- Works
- 66
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- Serenades du Soir
- Complete Works for Piano - Volume 1
- Ecrits Reunis par ornella volta
- Complete Works for Piano - Volume 3
- Satie : 3 Gymnopedies
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Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. He was the son of a French father and a British mother. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, but was an undistinguished student and obtained no diploma. In the 1880s he worked as a pianist in café-cabaret in Montmartre, Paris, and began composing works, mostly for…
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- Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma — Self (archive footage)1978
- Entr'acte — A man following the hearse (uncredited)1924
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Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925), better known as Erik Satie, was a French composer and pianist. The son of a French father and a British mother, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire but was undistinguished and did not obtain a diploma. In the 1880s he worked as a pianist in café-cabarets in Montmartre, Paris, and began composing works, mostly for solo piano, such as his Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes. He also wrote music for a Rosicrucian sect to which he was briefly attached.
Following a period of sparse compositional productivity, Satie entered Paris's second music academy, the Schola Cantorum, as a mature student. His studies there were more successful than those at the Conservatoire. From about 1910 he became the focus of successive groups of young composers attracted by his unconventionality and originality. Among them were the group known as Les Six. A meeting with Jean Cocteau in 1915 led to the creation of the ballet Parade (1917) for Sergei Diaghilev, with music by Satie, sets and costumes by Pablo Picasso, and choreography by Léonide Massine.
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