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Erik Satie (Paperback)
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Erik Satie (Paperback)
Series: Critical Lives
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A musical composer who dabbled in the Dada movement, a Bohemian
gymnopediste of fin-de-siecle Montmartre, and a legendary dresser
known as The Velvet Gentleman for his sartorial choices, Erik Satie
was nearly unprecedented in technique, style and philosophy among
European composers in the early twentieth century. Yet his legacy
has largely languished in the shadows of Stravinsky, Debussy and
Ravel. Mary E. Davis now brings Satie to life in this fascinating
new biography that demonstrates that his musical innovations
reached as far as his influence. Satie redefined the boundaries of
the composer's art, devising new methods of artistic expression
that melded ordinary elements and rarefied genres of words, visual
art and music. Davis argues that Satie's modernist aesthetic was
grounded in the contradictions apparent in his life such as
enrolling in the conservative Schola Cantorum after working as a
cabaret performer and is reflected in his irreverent essays,
drawings and music." Erik Satie" explores how the composer was
embraced by both the avant-garde and Parisian elite, an experience
that immersed him in the worlds of high fashion and cutting-edge
modernist art, and subsequently gave him the aesthetic impetus to
create the new musical style of Neoclassicism. Satie also crucially
employed the power of the image through his infamous fashion
statements, Davis contends, to establish his place in the art
world, and in this connection between couture and culture, Satie
was at the heart of a nascent celebrity culture. A fascinating and
informative portrait, with numerous illustrations that include art
by Satie himself, "Erik Satie" reassesses the accepted history of
modernist music and restores the composer to his rightful
pioneering status.
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