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Erik Satie
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.
After a spell in which he composed little, Satie entered Paris's second music academy, the Schola Cantorum, as a mature student. His studies there were more successful than those at the Conservatoire. From about 1910 he became the focus of successive groups of young composers attracted by his unconventionality and originality.
Satie's example guided a new generation of French composers away from post-Wagnerian impressionism towards a sparer, terser style. Among those influenced by him during his lifetime were Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Francis Poulenc, and he is seen as an influence on more recent, minimalist composers such as John Cage and John Adams. His harmony is often characterized by unresolved chords, he sometimes dispensed with bar-lines, as in his Gnossiennes, and his melodies are generally simple and often reflect his love of old church music.
You have heard his compositions even if you haven’t realized it, songs like “Gymnopedie No. 1” are so ubiquitous that it is unlikely you can even remember the first time you heard them, it’s like they were always there.
Grandbrothers is a musical collaboration formed in Düsseldorf, Germany by pianist Erol Sarp and engineer/software designer Lukas Vogel. They released “Gnossienne No. 1 - Grandbrothers Rework (FRAGMENTS / Erik Satie)” as a single in 2022. Grandbrothers uses the wandering piano melody of Satie’s “Gnossienne No. 1” as the backbone for an electronic soundscape that manages to retain the emotional heart of the composition.
Reference List
https://www.grandbrothersmusic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
After a spell in which he composed little, Satie entered Paris's second music academy, the Schola Cantorum, as a mature student. His studies there were more successful than those at the Conservatoire. From about 1910 he became the focus of successive groups of young composers attracted by his unconventionality and originality.
Satie's example guided a new generation of French composers away from post-Wagnerian impressionism towards a sparer, terser style. Among those influenced by him during his lifetime were Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Francis Poulenc, and he is seen as an influence on more recent, minimalist composers such as John Cage and John Adams. His harmony is often characterized by unresolved chords, he sometimes dispensed with bar-lines, as in his Gnossiennes, and his melodies are generally simple and often reflect his love of old church music.
You have heard his compositions even if you haven’t realized it, songs like “Gymnopedie No. 1” are so ubiquitous that it is unlikely you can even remember the first time you heard them, it’s like they were always there.
Grandbrothers is a musical collaboration formed in Düsseldorf, Germany by pianist Erol Sarp and engineer/software designer Lukas Vogel. They released “Gnossienne No. 1 - Grandbrothers Rework (FRAGMENTS / Erik Satie)” as a single in 2022. Grandbrothers uses the wandering piano melody of Satie’s “Gnossienne No. 1” as the backbone for an electronic soundscape that manages to retain the emotional heart of the composition.
Reference List
https://www.grandbrothersmusic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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