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Erik Satie

Born
May 17, 1866 · Aged 59
Died
Jul 1, 1925
Place of birth
Honfleur, Calvados, France
Gender
Male
Movie credits
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Also known as (1)
  • エリック・サティ

Biography

Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. He was the son of a French father and a British mother. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, but was an undistinguished student and obtained no diploma. In the 1880s he worked as a pianist in café-cabaret 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. After a spell in which he composed little, Satie entered Paris's…