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Erik Satie

Data de nascimento: 17. Maio 1866
Data de falecimento: 1. Julho 1925

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie, assinando como Erik Satie a partir de 1884, foi um compositor e pianista francês. Relevante no cenário de vanguarda parisiense do começo do século XX, foi o precursor de movimentos artísticos como minimalismo, música repetitiva e teatro do absurdo.

Tornou-se cult entre os jovens compositores, que eram atraídos pelos títulos bem-humorados de suas peças, e exerceu grande influência em seus amigos, os notáveis contemporâneos Debussy e Ravel, mudando assim o curso da história da música. Foi ainda inovador por ter sido um dos precursores do ragtime, estilo de pré-jazz, com as estruturas minimalistas que ele propôs.

Citações Erik Satie

„On the first movement of Claude Debussy's La Mer, From Dawn to Noon: " Ah, my dear friend, there's one particular moment between half past ten and a quarter to eleven that I found stunning!" (with slight variations in phrasing and translation)“

— Erik Satie
Mary McAuliffe: Twilight of the Belle Epoque (2014), p. 111.

„Embryon desséché d'Holoturie, 1913“

— Erik Satie
Like a nightingale with a toothache.

„Translation: Study for a bust of Mr Erik Satie painted by himself, with a thought: I came into the world very young in an age that was very old.“

— Erik Satie
(Written to accompany a self-portrait caricature drawn by himself - see image)

„nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.“

— Erik Satie
about artist/model Suzanne Valadon at the end of their love affair

„I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, turnips; camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish (skinless).“

— Erik Satie
Quoted by Rollo H. Myers (1968). Erik Satie, p.135. New York: Dover. See also Socrate for the context of this quote.

„I took to my room and let small things evolve slowly.“

— Erik Satie
The man in a velvet suit Lucy Daniel Telegraph Review January 25 2014.

„Citing of SCHUBERT's famous mazurka.“

— Erik Satie
The piece in question that Satie was parodying was actually Chopin's Funeral March. Schubert never wrote any mazurkas that would have been well-known to his contemporaries, whereas Chopin wrote many of these pieces, that were very popular. Schubert was at the time however very often cited, for example, Satie's thentime friend Ravel had published Schubert-imitating Valses Nobles et Sentimentales in 1911.