Erik Satie
Subtitle: a Parisian composer and his world
By: Caroline Potter
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781783270835
Subjects: Composers; Popular culture; Biography
Description: Erik Satie's music was created in some of the most exciting and creatively stimulating environments of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: Montmartre and Montparnasse. Paris was the artistic centre of Europe, and Satie was a notorious figure whose music and ideas are inextricably linked with the City of Light. This book asserts that the influence of street music, musicians and poets interested in new technology, contemporary innovations and radical politics are all crucial to an understanding of Satie.
Notes: "Personalia": pages xx-xxix ; "Chronology and worklist": pages xxx-xxxiii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-260) and indexes (index of names; index of works by Satie).
Table of contents: title: Satie in Montmartre : mechanical music in the belle époque; title: Futurism, the new avant-garde, and mechanical music; title: Satie's texted piano works; title: Repetition and furniture music; title: Science, society, and politics in Satie's life; title: The provocative Satie and the Dada connection; title: Satie's death and musical legacy.