Artist
Erik Satie
Erik Satie is a composer artist from French. 26 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Composer · French · Best composer albums
- 26
- Releases
- 1984–2016
- Active years
Discography
26Most popular
BBC Music, Volume 24, Number 6: French Piano Works
2016
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About
Alfred Éric Leslie Satie (Honfleur, 17 May 1866–Paris, 1 July 1925) was a French composer, pianist, and writer. Over the years, Erik Satie was described as a precursor of movements and styles as varied as impressionism, neo-classicism, dada, surrealism, conceptual art, minimalism, and ambient music. As well as taking the first steps towards techniques such as prepared piano and music-to-film synchronisation, Satie became one of the first musicians to perform a cameo appearance in a film, in 1924’s Entr’acte by the French filmmaker René Clair. Satie appears to have been the avant-garde to half of the avant-garde movements of the twentieth century. He was in contact with Tristan Tzara, the initiator of the Dada movement. He got to know the other Dadaists, such as Francis Picabia (later to become a Surrealist), André Derain, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. Satie contributed to the Dadaist publication 391. In the first months of 1922, he was surprised to find himself entangled in the argument between Tzara and André Breton. Satie originally sided with Tzara, but managed to maintain friendly relations with most players in both camps. Satie is today regarded as a key modernist composer. As w…
Erik Satie in brief
- How many Erik Satie releases are on Riffiter?
- 26 releases are catalogued, spanning 1984 to 2016.
- What genre is Erik Satie?
- Erik Satie is catalogued under Composer.
- What is the most recent Erik Satie release on Riffiter?
- BBC Music, Volume 24, Number 6: French Piano Works, released in 2016.