Erik Satie: Music, Art and Literature

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Contents: Preface
Satie's musical and personal logic, Robert Orledge
Satie and the meaning of the comic, Ann-Marie Hanlon
Satie's Rose-Croix piano works, Grace Wai Kwan Gates
Satie as poet, playwright and composer, Caroline Potter
'The only musician with eyes': Erik Satie and visual art, Simon Shaw-Miller
Exploring interart dialogue in Erik Satie's Sports et divertissements (1914/1922), Helen Julia Minors
Parade: ballet realiste, Christine Reynolds
Collaborative works in Satie's last years, Pietro Dossena
History, homeopathy and the spiritual impulse in the post-war reception of Satie: Cage, Higgins, Beuys, Matthew Mendez
After Satie, Howard Skempton (in conversation with Caroline Potter)
Appendix: chronological catalogue of Satie's compositions and research guide to the manuscripts, Robert Orledge
Select bibliography
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Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a quirky, innovative and enigmatic composer whose impact has spread far beyond the musical world. As an artist active in several spheres - from cabaret to religion, from calligraphy to poetry and playwriting - and collaborator with some of the leading avant-garde figures of the day, including Cocteau, Picasso, Diaghilev and René Clair, he was one of few genuinely cross-disciplinary composers. His artistic activity, during a tumultuous time in the Parisian art world, situates him in an especially exciting period, and his friendships with Debussy, Stravinsky and others place him at the centre of French musical life. He was a unique figure whose art is immediately recognisable, whatever the medium he employed. Erik Satie: Music, Art and Literature explores many aspects of Satie's creativity to give a full picture of this most multifaceted of composers. The focus is on Satie's philosophy and psychology revealed through his music; Satie's interest in and participation in artistic media other than music, and Satie's collaborations with other artists. This book is therefore essential reading for anyone interested in the French musical and cultural scene of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

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Piano works by the French composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) are everywhere... This collection of well-documented articles clarifies that appeal. Erik Satie: Music, Art and Literature usefully demonstrates how Satie's originality and sometimes ornery eccentricity helped fuel his lasting reputation as a musical genius

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