![]() ![]() His father had been in the shipping business, but the family then moved to Paris. He was born Alfred Eric Leslie Satie, but as a grown-up he always spelled his name “Erik”. 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. Satie was not a brilliant composer, but he was happy to compose well in a simple way. These ways of writing music became more common later in the century. Satie used ways of composing such as very chromatic music and Minimalism before many other people. ![]() He was important because of the ideas he had, and many people were influenced by him. ![]() He was very important in the development of music in France in the late 19th and early 20th century. Satie sometimes used unusual instruments such as sirens and typewriters. The first of these pieces is a very famous piece of music: it is a simple tune over a gentle accompaniment. His best known musical compositions are the three piano pieces which he called Gymnopédies. He often gave his music unusual titles such as Piece in the form of a pear. He is mainly remembered today for his music and the strange ways he behaved. Part of his advice runs: “Smoke away, dear chap if you don’t someone else will.Erik Alfred Leslie Satie (born Honfleur ( France), died Paris, 1 July 1925) was a French composer. I wear a white cap, white stockings, and a white waistcoat. I have subscribed for some time to a fashion magazine. Once every hour a servant takes my temperature and gives me another. My bed is round, with a hole to put my head through. I sleep with only one eye closed, very profoundly. My expression is very serious when I laugh it is unintentional, and I always apologize most affably. When walking, I clasp my sides, and look steadily behind me. I breathe with care (a little at a time). I am a hearty eater, but never speak while eating, for fear of strangling. I boil my wine and drink it cold mixed with the juice of the Fuchsia. My only nourishment consists of food that is white: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals, veal, salt, coconuts, chicken cooked in white water, fruit-mould, rice, turnips, camphorated sausages, pastry, cheese (white varieties), cotton salad, and certain kinds of fish (without their skin). Once a week, I wake up with a start at 3:19 (Tuesdays). various occupations (fencing, reflection, immobility, visits, contemplation, dexterity, swimming, etc.)ĭinner is served at 7:16 and finished at 7:20 P.M. Another bout of inspiration from 3:12 to 4:07 P.M. ![]() A healthy ride on horseback round my domain follows from 1:19 P.M. I lunch at 12:11 and leave the table at 12:14. I rise at 7:18 am inspired from 10:23 to 11:47. Here is the exact timetable of my daily activities: The relevant passage is reprinted below, with some of his drawings of imaginary buildings and busts, because why not … - D.P.Īn artist must organize his life. It comes from an even more eccentric whole, Satie’s book Memoirs of an Amnesiac. “Monsieur Sadi in his house-he’s thinking.”Įrik Satie, the composer and pianist, was born on this day 150 years ago. “ There are many kinds of eccentric,” Nick Richardson wrote in the London Review of Books last year, “ and Satie was most of them.” The musician’s description of his diet, comprising all-white foods, many of them inedible, is often quoted as evidence of this eccentricity. A drawing by Satie in a letter to Jean Cocteau, 1917. ![]()
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