Erik Satie

Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (Honfleur, 17 May 1866 – Paris, 1 July 1925) was a French composer and pianist.

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Satie also...

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• ...introduced himself as a "gymnopedist" (in 1887, shortly before writing his most famous compositions, the Gymnop?dies);
• ...was a writer of articles for several periodicals;
• ...called himself a "phonometrograph" or "phonometrician" (someone who measures and writes down sounds) — preferring this definition of his profession to "musician", after he had been called ?a clumsy but subtle technician? in a book on contemporary French composers in 1911;
• ...became one of the first to perfom a cameo appearance, in a 1924 film by Ren? Clair (see: a sample of the film (rm format) and the Entr'acte article);
• ...can be seen as a serial precursor, streets ahead of many 20th century avant-garde artistic ideas, see below.

He is best known as Erik Satie (he exchanged, from his first composition in 1884, the 'c' at the end of his first name for a 'k'). Although in later life he prided himself on always publishing his work under his own name, there appears to have been a brief period in the late 1880s in which he published articles under the pseudonym ?Virginie Lebeau?.

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