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Erik Satie
Title: Erik Satie
Category: Arts & Humanities / Artists
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Erik Satie
Satie, Erik
The French composer Erik Satie was born on May 17, 1866, and died on July 1, 1925, was the son of an English mother and a Parisian music publisher.
He entered the Paris Conservatory in 1879 but failed to benefit from academic education, which he embarked on again only in his 40th year, when he enrolled as a pupil of Vincent d'Indy and Albert Roussel at the Schola Cantorum. Long before that, however, he had composed a number …showed first 75 words of 365 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 365 total…also collaborated. By far the most important of Satie's works is Socrate , an harsh setting for four sopranos and chamber orchestra of Plato's account of the death of Socrates. The young composers who formed the essentially Parisian group known as Les Six regarded Satie as a kind of tutelary genius, and in 1923 one of them, Darius Milhaud, tried to found an 'Ecole d'Arcueil,' named for the obscure Paris suburb where Satie lived in extreme poverty.
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