Satie in a sentence

During their relationship, Satie composed the Danses gothiques as a kind of prayer to restore peace of mind, and Valadon painted a portrait of Satie, which she gave to him.

In 1910 the " Jeunes Ravêlites main", a group of young musicians around Ravel, proclaimed their preference for Satie's earlier work from before the Schola period, reinforcing the idea that Satie had been a precursor of Debussy.

Adding to the allure, René Clair’s surreal masterpiece, Entr’acte, will be screened with its original Erik Satie soundtrack.

Maybe that is just one more instance of Satie's upside-down-ness.

The choice to use millet in the nutrient-dense tots was influenced by his mother and her cooking, as well as the School of Natural Cookery, a plant-based cooking school in Boulder that Satie started in 1983.

After his death, Satie's friends discovered an apartment replete with squalor and chaos.

After six months she moved away, leaving Satie broken-hearted.

As a result of his contact with Roland-Manuel, Satie again began publicising his thoughts, with far more irony than he had done before (amongst other things, the Mémoires d'un amnésique main and Cahiers d'un mammifère main).

Consider, in particular, the ballet of Satie, Parade (Ragtime du Paquebot), (1917) and La Mort de Monsieur Mouche, an overture for piano for a drama in three acts, composed in the early 1900s in memory of his friend J.P. Contamine de Latour.

Erik Satie is acknowledged as an important precursor to modern ambient music and influence to Brian Eno.

Erik Satie was also considered in this category, though his approach was regarded as less serious, more musical novelty in nature.

Erik Satie wrote many compositions that are ostensibly in free time, but actually follow an unstated and unchanging simple time signature.

From 1899 on, Satie started making money as a cabaret pianist, adapting over a hundred compositions of popular music for piano or piano and voice, adding some of his own.

From the early 1880s onwards, Satie started publishing salon compositions by his step-mother and himself, among others.

Her testimony was twisted by Admiral Norah Satie in order to implicate the quarter-Romulan crewman Simon Tarses in the incident, later determined to be an accident.

However, Satie's military career did not last very long; within a few months he was discharged after deliberately infecting himself with bronchitis.

In 1902 the American cakewalk was very popular in Paris and Satie two years later wrote two rags, La Diva de l'empire and Piccadilly.

In September 1918, Satie – giving little or no explanation – withdrew from the Nouveaux jeunes main.

Intriguingly, a rare autochrome photograph of Satie exists that dates from 1911.

Melissa Lesnie, "Five things you didn't know about Erik Satie".