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Eric Alfred Leslie Satie [n 1] (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.
Apr 5, 2024 · Erik Satie, French composer whose spare, unconventional, often witty style exerted a major influence on 20th-century music, particularly in France. His work represents the first definite break with 19th-century French Romanticism, and it stands in opposition to the music of Claude Debussy.
Mar 13, 2019 · Erik Satie's music is better described by what it isn't than what it is. A contrarian, he wrote anti-emotional, anti-virtuosic and anti-Wagnerian music, basically rejecting all the major...
Erik Satie: Gymnopédies & Gnossiennes (Full Album) - YouTube. 0:00 / 1:05:19. Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer):...
Jul 1, 2015 · Erik Satie: a life less ordinary. Erik Satie’s Gymnopédie No 1 might be a pop classic, but there’s much, much more to the fascinating and eccentric French composer. Meurig Bowen. Wed 1...
May 17, 2018 · Only decades after his 1925 death was French composer Erik Satie hailed as a genius of contemporary classical music. His work was extremely simple in structure, yet innovative and marked by a characteristic wit.
Erik Satie, orig. Eric Alfred Leslie Satie, (born May 17, 1866, Honfleur, Calvados, France—died July 1, 1925, Paris), French composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire (1879–82) but dropped out.
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