Erik Satie

Also known as Éric Alfred Leslie Satie, Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, Alfred Erik Leslie Satie, Éric Satie, Ė. Sati, Ėrik Sati, Eric Alfred Leslie Satie, Eric Satie

French composer and pianist (1866-1925)

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Éric Alfred Leslie Satie was a French composer and pianist born in Honfleur on May 17, 1866. He was a student of Vincent d'Indy and received education at the Conservatoire de Paris and the Schola Cantorum de Paris. His musical output is associated with the avant-garde movement and encompasses the genres of Romantic music and Impressionism.

Satie is known for notable works including *Parade*, *Gymnopédies*, and *Gnossiennes*, for which he played the piano. He was unmarried to Suzanne Valadon and spoke French. He died from liver cirrhosis due to natural causes in Arcueil on July 1, 1925. His archives are held at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and he is described by sources such as UbuWeb.

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Honfleur, Calvados, France

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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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: France
Active from: 1866
Active to: 1925

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Total plays: 39,207,797

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Instance of: human
Given name: Leslie
Gender: male
Citizenship: France
Place of birth: Honfleur
Occupation: pianist
Educated at: Schola Cantorum de Paris
Languages spoken: French
Notable work: Gnossiennes
Participant in: Tabakalera
Student of: Vincent d'Indy
Genre: Impressionism
Movement: avant-garde
Instrument: piano
Official website: www.erik-satie.com
Image: Satie-erik-4ff9d0bde1749.jpg

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topic's main category: Category:Erik Satie
Commons category: Erik Satie
date of birth: 1866-05-17
date of death: 1925-06-01
unmarried partner: Suzanne Valadon
Commons gallery: Erik Satie
cause of death: liver cirrhosis
manner of death: natural causes
archives at: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
name in native language: Erik Satie
writing language: French
social media followers: 71300
list of works: list of compositions by Erik Satie
related category: Category:Compositions by Erik Satie
member of: Rosicrucianism
copyright representative: SACEM
birth name: Éric Alfred Leslie Satie
Commons Creator page: Erik Satie

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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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