Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, born May 17th 1866 to Scottish born Jane Leslie Anton and Norman born Alfred Satie in Honfleur, France. Satie is a well-remembered figure of 20th Century composers and pianist, who had always described himself as “a medieval musician who had wandered by mistake into the 20th Century”(1). Satie had suffered family tragedies in his early childhood losing his mother, Jane, at the age of 6. He was sent to live with his grandparents in 1872, along with his siblings. When he lived with his grandparents he started his musical career. At the age of ten, he had piano lessons from Vinot, local organist from St. Catherine’s church. According to Rollo H. Myers’s book of Erik Satie, there are two prominent figures in Erik’s life, his uncle Adrien who, like his nephew, had an odd character and his first piano teacher Vinot. After his grandmother passed away in 1878, Erik and his brother were sent to live with their father, Alfred Satie, whom one year later, married Mademoiselle Eugénie Barnetsche who was a pianist and teacher. Erik took quite a dislike to his new stepmother when she tried to teach Satie what she believed to be the correct and more traditional way to learn music. This was too strict for Satie. It is clear from this point in his early musical career that Satie was not going to be the traditional composer and wanted to break the traditional learning barriers. He died on the 1st of July 1925 in Arcueil, France from cirrhosis of the liver.
It is thought that having both Scottish and Norman blood relations that created this very creative, yet slightly rebellious characteristic known with Erik Satie. It is thought that because Erik Satie was close with his Uncle Adrian, also known as the “Sea-bird” who was ...
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B. J Hare, Ph. D “The Uses and Aesthetics of Musical Borrowing in Erik Satie’s Humoristic Piano Suites, 1913-1917” The University of Texas at Austin, December 2005. Copyright B. J. Hare 2005 [Accessed 22 Dec 2013]
Erik Satie. 2013. The Famous People website. Available from: http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/erik-satie-308.php [Accessed 29 Dec 2013]. http://imslp.org/wiki/Gnossiennes_(Satie,_Erik) PDF download of the 6 Gnossiennes musical example purposes.
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PDF download of the Gymnopedies for musical example purposes http://www.satie-archives.com/web/article1.html An article by Olof Höjer - a Swedish pianist and Satie expert. Taken from his CD: Erik Satie - the complete piano music vol. 1. © 1996 Prophone Records, Stockholm, Sweden. [Accessed 27 Dec 2013]
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