Erik Satie
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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
Satie in 1920
Satie's birthplace and childhood home in Honfleur, Normandy, now a museum
Satie in 1884
Satie by Santiago Rusiñol, 1890s
Rosicrucianism
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Rosicrucianism is a spiritual and cultural movement influenced by Esoteric Christianity and Hermeticism that arose in early modern Europe in the early 17th century after the publication of several tex
Erik Satie
…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…
The publication of the Fama Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis (1614)
Frater C.R.C. – Christian Rose Cross (symbolical representation)
A 17th century depiction of the Rosicrucian concept of the Tree of Pansophia, 1604
18° Knight of the Rose Croix jewel (from the Masonic Scottish Rite)