Erik Satie

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1866-05-17 (59 years old)

Deathday

1925-07-01

Place of Birth

Honfleur, Calvados, France

Erik Satie

Biography

Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. He was the son of a French father and a British mother. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, but was an undistinguished student and obtained no diploma. In the 1880s he worked as a pianist in café-cabaret 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. After a spell in which he composed little, Satie entered Paris's second music academy, the Schola Cantorum, as a mature ...

Acting

1924

Entr'acte

as A man following the hearse (uncredited)

Production

1928

Misdeal

as Music

2020

Mitosis

as Music

2016

Satan Satie

as Music

1931

Limite

as Music

1996

2019

Moth

as Music

1989

Es lebe die R...

as Original Music Composer

1998

1992

Ghost Body

as Music

2023

Echo Sonata

as Music

2023

2021

Day

as Music

1996

Brâncuși

as Music

2016

1982

Kamraterna

as Music

1974

Orson-Sade

as Music

2017

Weekends

as Music

1965

Gymnopédies

as Music

1924

Entr'acte

as Music

1978

Satiemania

as Music

2022

Limito

as Music

1963

2020

1984

Piet Bekaert

as Music

2020

1993

Cage

as Music

1981

Genossinnen

as Music

2013

Cookie

as Music

2003

2020

Piece No. 1

as Music

-

Parade

as Music

1938

Haiti

as Music

2025

2025

Horizontes

as Musician

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