Satie Remembered

[Satie, Erik] Orledge, Robert. Satie Remembered. With translations from the French by Roger Nichols. London and Boston, Faber and Faber Limited, 1995. 13.5 cm x 21.5 cm. XXXVIII, 226 pages. With 20 illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [Composers Remembered Series] Includes the following Youth and student years / The Bohemian and mystic in Montmartre / At home (i) In the rue Cortot (ii) In Arcueil / On foot in all weathers / In cafes and restaurants / With friends and other artists / Vexations and vicissitudes / As composer and precursor / Success and the war years / Last high society and the theatre / Final illness and death. From 'Gymnopedies' to the scandalous ballet 'Relache', Erik Satie's creations are paradoxical and extraordinary, and the mask the composer created for himself was as deliberately ambiguous as his music. This biography, published to tie in with the 70th anniversary of Satie's death, includes evidence and reminiscences from a wide variety of acquaintances, friends, fellow artists and antagonists. More than half the extracts in the book appear in English for the first time. (Amazon) Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925), who 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, Surrealism, repetitive music, and the Theatre of the Absurd. An eccentric, Satie was introduced as a 'gymnopedist' in 1887, shortly before writing his most famous compositions, the Gymnopédies. Later, he also referred to himself as a 'phonometrician' (meaning 'someone who measures sounds'), preferring this designation to that of 'musician', after having been called 'a clumsy but subtle technician' in a book on contemporary French composers published in..