Erik Alfred Leslie Satie
Born: 17th May 1866, Honfleur, France
Died: 1st July 1925, Arcueil, France
Nationality: French
Eric Alfred Leslie Satie 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.
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Piano and Vocal music by Erik Satie
1st Jul 2016
James listens to a double helping of works by Satie, whose 150th anniversary falls this year.
Popular Genres: Satie
Orchestral
Chamber
Instrumental
Vocal
Choral
Popular Works: Satie
- Avant Dernières Pensées (71)
- Chapitres tournés en tous sens (43)
- Croquis et Agaceries d'un Gros Bonhomme en bois (59)
- Descriptions automatiques (45)
- Embryons desséchés (78)
- Gnossienne No. 1 (149)
- Gnossienne No. 2 (59)
- Gnossienne No. 3 (71)
- Gnossienne No. 4 (60)
- Gnossienne No. 5 (43)
- Gymnopédie No. 1 (491)
- Gymnopédie No. 2 (208)
- Gymnopédie No. 3 (267)
- Heures séculaires et instantanées (43)
- Jack in the Box (39)
- Je te veux (138)
- La belle excentrique (43)
- La diva de l'empire (51)
- Le Piccadilly (67)
- Les Pantins dansent (39)
- Les trois valses distinguées du précieux dégouté (43)
- Nocturne No. 1 'Doux et calme' (40)
- Nocturne No. 3 'Un peu mouvementé' (40)
- Nocturne No. 4 (38)
- Parade (51)
- Petite Ouverture à danser (51)
- Pièces froides (6) (37)
- Pièces froides: Airs à faire fuir (3) (48)
- Pièces froides: Danses de travers (3) (57)
- Poudre d'or (43)
- Prélude de la porte héroique du ciel (56)
- Six Gnossiennes (82)
- Sonatine Bureaucratique (71)
- Sonneries de la Rose et Croix (37)
- Sports et Divertissements (71)
- Trois Gymnopédies (161)
- Trois Morceaux En Forme De Poire (67)
- Trois Sarabandes (46)
- Véritables préludes flasques (3), pour un chien (42)
- Vieux Sequins et Vieilles Cuirasses (44)
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