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Erik Satie Facts about Erik Satie • Name: Alfred Eric Leslie Satie • Date he was born: (early 20th century composer) Haga clic en el icono para agregar una imagen • "When I was young, I was told: 17th of May,1866 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I Nationality: am fifty and I haven't seen a thing. Erik Satie" • He was French Date he died: years old) 1st of July,1925 (he was 59 French pianist and composer. Eccentricity, irreverence and a Dadaist attitude are the ingredients that make up the life and music of Satie. Orphaned of mother, was educated by his grandfather and an uncle,they transmitted him his hobby of being carried by all kinds of fantasies and fabulous stories. He showed some special skills for music,and in 1879 he entered the Paris Conservatory. However,he got tired of the hard work, discipline and rules, in 1886 he replaced classes for the cabarets of Montmartre.His work was a precursor to later artistic movements such as minimalism, repetitive music, and the Theatre of the Absurd. Satie was an eccentric man with a rebellious spirit, and often made fun of classical music by composing parodies Satie was known to with unusual titles like habitually walk across Unpleasant Glimpses, Paris proper every Desiccated Embryos, working day; a round trip Genuine Flabby Preludes of roughly ten milesga (for a dog), Old Sequins and Old Breastplates, and Teasing Sketches of a Fat Man Made of Wood to name a few. Satie was good friends with Claude Debussy, and Maurice Ravel, even though he opposed impressionistic music - a genre in which Debussy and Ravel composed many great pieces. Most famous works: • Three Sarabandes:The Sarabands of 1887 are his first famous works. They introduced Satie to the musical world, and introduced his style. His unusual scales, his use of dissonances that are not resolved but left hanging for the listener to make sense of. • Three Gymnopedies:Soon after the Sarabandes, Satie wrote the works for which he is most famous, the Gymnopedies.One meaning of the term is from ancient Greece, the Gymnopedies being a festival of dance of naked warriers, but there is little in the music to suggest that source of inspiration . • Three Gnossiennes:The 1889 World fair in Paris influenced Satie greatly.They are annotated with Satie's trademark comments. In the first work he instructs the player to perform “monotonously and whitely” and “very shiningly”. The pianist is also told to “ask insistently within yourself ”, “arm yourself with clairvoyance” and to “dig into the sound” while playing “with great kindness”. Satie was more than just an unusual man. He was very important in the development of music in France in the early 20th century. He was important because of the ideas he had, and many people were influenced by him. Satie used ways of composing such as very chromatic music and minimalism before many other people. These ways of writing music became more common later in the century. Satie was not a brilliant composer, but he was happy to compose well in a simple way. He was also interested in other arts such as literature and painting and he was associated with the new ideas called esprit nouveau (new spirit) which was fashionable in France around the time of World War I. VIDEOS http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=iHEpuj96bCg - Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R21ZJBAK_6U -Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLFVGwGQcB0 - Erik Satie - Gnossienne No.1 *.

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