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
Gnossiennes
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The Gnossiennes are several piano compositions by the French composer Erik Satie in the late 19th century. The works are for the most part in free time and highly experimental with form, rhythm and ch
Erik Satie
…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…
Erik Satie (1891), by Ramon Casas