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Satie Seen Through His Letters
This whimsical book about the eccentric Parisian composer Erik Alfred Leslie Satie (1866-1925) confirms his position as one of the most bizarre personalities in music history. Gathered by a determined iconographer, thedirector of the Satie Foundation in Paris, and arranged somewhat chronologically by topic, such as "Friends," and "Lawsuits," these lette...more
Paperback, 239 pages
Published
July 1st 2000
by Marion Boyars Publishers, Ltd.
(first published October 1989)
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An appropriately playful book that becomes a biography of Erik Satie by allowing his letters to friends (and enemies) and peers and family to speak for themselves. It's a delightful and charming book filled with drawings and illustrations and it gives a great sense of Satie's unpredictability, strange wit, and generally odd (but usually calculated) behavior.
There are letters to Tristan Tzara, Poulenc, Debussy's wife, Brancusi, etc. that give a lively sense of all the artistic activit...more
There are letters to Tristan Tzara, Poulenc, Debussy's wife, Brancusi, etc. that give a lively sense of all the artistic activit...more
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"Everybody offers to buy one a drink; but nobody ever dreams of buying one a sandwich."
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Saties impeccable correspondence proves once and for all he is the very 1st rock n' roll rebel.His musical affiliations w/ such artistic greats as Picasso, Debussey, Coceteu, and Milhaud (who taught Brubeck)is complete w/ fist fights and freak outs.All set against the backdrop of turn of the century to WW1 Paris, this book reads like a whos who of the social luminaries of a golden day and age in art history-the modernist movement. Plus it is replete w/ funky doodles and weird pictures. You just ...more
VH1 really needs to do a Behind the Music on Satie.
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Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 1866 – Paris, 1 July 1925; signed his name Erik Satie after 1884) was a French composer and pianist. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde. His work was a precursor to later artistic movements such as minimalism, repetitive music, and the Theatre of the Absurd.
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