Erik Satie

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

See also

A number of works by Erik Satie are listed in the Category of compositions by Erik Satie.

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External links

• Satie Home page — a very full website dedicated to Satie, including a forum (managed by Niclas Fogwall). On the same website:
• A collection of Satie's music samples
• Pictures of Satie
• News Group (Forum)
• Satie's Scores — by the Mutopia Project

Sources

Niclas Fogwall's website mentioned above contains a comprehensive list of Satie publications, while more book references are mentioned on several contributors' pages at that site. Apart from sources mentioned in the text itself, the present Wikipedia article drew from, amongst others, the following publications (in English, unless indicated):

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;Writings by Satie

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• A Mammal's Notebook: Collected Writings of Erik Satie (Serpent's Tail; Atlas Arkhive, No 5, 1997) ISBN 0947757929 (with introduction and notes by Ornella Volta, translations by Anthony Melville, contains several drawings by Satie)
• Correspondance presque complète: Réunie, établie et présentée par Ornella Volta (Paris: Fayard/Imes, 2000; 1265pp) ISBN 2213606749 (an almost complete edition of Satie's letters, in French)

;Books on Satie

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• Volta, Ornella and Simon Pleasance, Erik Satie (Hazan: The Pocket Archives Series, 1997; 200pp) ISBN 2850255653
• Gillmor, Alan M., Erik Satie (Twayne Pub., 1988, reissued 1992; 387pp) ISBN 0393308103
• Volta, Ornella and Michael Bullock, Satie Seen Through His Letters (Marion Boyars, 1994) ISBN 071452980X
• Orledge, Robert, Satie Remembered (London: Faber and Faber, London, 1995)
• Orledge, Robert, Satie the Composer Cambridge University Press: 1990; 437pp — in the series Music in the Twentieth Century Arnold Whittall) ISBN 0521350379
• Templier, Pierre-Daniel (translated by Elena L. French and David S. French), Erik Satie (The MIT Press, 1969, reissued 1971) ISBN 0262700050 and (New York: Da Capo Press, 1980 reissue) ISBN 0306760398 (note: Templier extensively consulted Conrad, Erik Satie's brother, when writing this first biography that appeared in 1932. The English translation was, however, criticised by John Cage; in a letter to Ornella Volta (25 May 1983) he referred to the translation as disappointing compared to the formidable value of the original biography)
• Satie the Bohemian: from Cabaret to Concert Hall (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999; 596pp) — a fully researched account of Satie's musical career in what then was regarded as popular music)

Recordings

;Piano works

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Recordings of Satie's piano works have been released performed by Reinbert de Leeuw, Pascal Rogé, Olof Höjer, Claude Coppens (live recording), Aldo Ciccolini, Daniel Varsano, Philippe Entremont, João Paulo Santos, Michel LeGrand, etc.

Related Topics:
Reinbert de Leeuw - Pascal Rogé - Olof Höjer - Claude Coppens - Aldo Ciccolini - Daniel Varsano - Philippe Entremont - João Paulo Santos - Michel LeGrand

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;Other

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• A recording of historical importance is probably Erik Satie, Les inspirations insolites, re-issued by EMI as a 2-CD set, containing among other pieces: Geneviève de Brabant (in a version before Contamine's text had been recovered), Le piège de Méduse, Messe des pauvres, etc.
• Many other recordings exist: Parade/Relâche (Michel Plasson/Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse), Satie: Socrate (Jean-Paul Fouchécourt/Ensemble), and recordings of songs, e.g., by Anne-Sophie Schmidt.