1866
Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (died 1925)
Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (died 1925)
Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (died 1925)
Erik Satie
French composer and pianist (1866–1925)
- Born
- 1866
Eric Alfred Leslie Satie, better known as Erik Satie, was a French composer and pianist. The son of a French father and a British mother, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire but was undistinguished and did not obtain a diploma. In the 1880s he worked as a pianist in café-cabarets in Montmartre, Paris, and began composing works, mostly for solo piano, such as his Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes. He also wrote music for a Rosicrucian sect to which he was briefly attached.