Erik Satie: Music, Art and Literature

Author: Caroline Potter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317141792
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a quirky, innovative and enigmatic composer whose impact has spread far beyond the musical world. As an artist active in several spheres - from cabaret to religion, from calligraphy to poetry and playwriting - and collaborator with some of the leading avant-garde figures of the day, including Cocteau, Picasso, Diaghilev and René Clair, he was one of few genuinely cross-disciplinary composers. His artistic activity, during a tumultuous time in the Parisian art world, situates him in an especially exciting period, and his friendships with Debussy, Stravinsky and others place him at the centre of French musical life. He was a unique figure whose art is immediately recognisable, whatever the medium he employed. Erik Satie: Music, Art and Literature explores many aspects of Satie's creativity to give a full picture of this most multifaceted of composers. The focus is on Satie's philosophy and psychology revealed through his music; Satie's interest in and participation in artistic media other than music, and Satie's collaborations with other artists. This book is therefore essential reading for anyone interested in the French musical and cultural scene of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes, and other works for piano

Author: Erik Satie
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486259781
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 179

Book Description
The affordable volume represents the largest collection of Satie piano works available. Includes 17 pieces in all by the French composer and pianist, including his most famous piece, Gymnopédies, as well as Sarabandes, Poudre d'or, En habit de cheval, and Morceaux en forme de poire. Painstakingly reprinted from the original French editions.

Erik Satie

Author: Caroline Potter
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783270837
Category : Art and music
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
Satie's music and ideas are inextricably linked with the City of Light. This book situates Satie's work within the context and sonic environment of contemporary Paris.

A Mammal's Notebook

Author: Erik Satie
Publisher: Atlas Press (GB)
ISBN: 9781900565660
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 223

Book Description
This is the largest selection, in any language, of the writings of Erik Satie. Although he was dismissed as an eccentric by many, Satie has come to be seen as a key influence on modern music. The appeal of his writings, however, go far beyond their musical value. He is revealed as one of the most beguiling of absurdists, in the mode of Lewis Carroll or Edward Lear, but with a strong streak of Dadaism (a movement with which he collaborated).

Sports Et Divertissements

Author: Erik Satie
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486243656
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
This is a facsimile of an extremely rare, limited collection of the French master's brilliant verbal and musical sketches of various outdoor sports and amusements, written to accompany Charles Martin's drawings.

The Vexations

Author: Caitlin Horrocks
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316316938
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description
This "enthralling" debut novel and Wall Street Journal Top Ten Book of the Year circles the life of eccentric composer Erik Satie in La Belle Époque Paris and examines love, family, genius, and the madness of art (New York Times Book Review). Erik Satie begins life with every possible advantage. But after the dual blows of his mother's early death and his father's breakdown upend his childhood, Erik and his younger siblings -- Louise and Conrad -- are scattered. Later, as an ambitious young composer, Erik flings himself into the Parisian art scene, aiming for greatness but achieving only notoriety. As the years, then decades, pass, he alienates those in his circle as often as he inspires them, lashing out at friends and lovers like Claude Debussy and Suzanne Valadon. Only Louise and Conrad are steadfast allies. Together they strive to maintain their faith in their brother's talent and hold fast the badly frayed threads of family. But in a journey that will take her from Normandy to Paris to Argentina, Louise is rocked by a severe loss that ultimately forces her into a reckoning with how Erik -- obsessed with his art and hungry for fame -- will never be the brother she's wished for. With her buoyant, vivid reimagination of an iconic artist's eventful life, Caitlin Horrocks has written a captivating and ceaselessly entertaining novel about the tenacious bonds of family and the costs of greatness, both to ourselves and to those we love.

Three Gymnopedies

Author:
Publisher: Kalmus Edition
ISBN: 9780757980336
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Pianists will love this newly engraved edition of these three often-played works by contemporary composer Erik Satie. The first is the most famous, but all three deserve attention in lessons and recitals. A composer biography has been added. Titles: No. 1 in D Major * No. 2 in C Major * No. 3 in A Minor.

The Erik Satie Piano Collection Including: 3 Gymnopedies, Gnossienes, 3 Nocturnes, Descriptions Automatique and Many Others by Erik Satie for Solo Piano

Author: Erik Satie
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 144748360X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
This wonderful collection by Erik Satie contains scores for the solo piano. It is a fine example of the composer's work and a fantastic addition to any classical musician's repertoire. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Writings of Erik Satie

Author: Erik Satie
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description

Satie the Composer

Author: Robert Orledge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521350372
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456

Book Description
Erik Satie remains one of the most bizarre figures in music history, yet everything he did has its own curious logic, once it can be perceived. In this important new study Dr Orledge reveals what made Satie 'tick' as a composer, dealing with every aspect of Satie's complex career and relating his achievement to the other arts and to the society in which he lived. Almost every figure in contemporary art was involved with Satie in some way or another, from Matisse and Picasso to Apollinaire, Cocteau and Brancusi. This, however, is no mere life-and-works study but rather an exploration of the technique behind Satie's art, which foreshadowed most of the 'advances' of twentieth-century music from serialism to minimalism, and even muzak. As the book progresses Satie appears as far more than just the composer of the popular Gymnopédies and Parade.