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Erik Satie: A Parisian Composer and his World

  • Author: Potter, Caroline
Potter's scholarly and engaging book brings out the ways in which Satie's music...absorbed the 'sonic environment' of the city More…

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$51.75

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Contents

  • Preface: Erik Satie, a Parisian composer and his world
  • Personalia
  • Chronology and worklist
  • Satie in Montmartre: mechanical music in the Belle Epoque
  • Futurism, the new avant-garde and mechanical music
  • Satie's texted piano works
  • Repetition and furniture music
  • Science, society and politics in Satie's life
  • The provocative Satie and the Dada connection
  • Satie's death and musical legacy
  • Bibliography