Erik Satie

1866–1925 · Late Romantic · France

Eric Alfred Leslie Satie, better known as Erik Satie, was a French composer and pianist. The son of a French father and a British mother, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire but was undistinguished and did not obtain a diploma. In the 1880s he worked as a pianist in café-cabarets 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.

• Elégie — 4 Petites mélodies · No. 1
• Danseuse — 4 Petites mélodies · No. 2
• Chanson — 4 Petites mélodies · No. 3
• Adieu — 4 Petites mélodies · No. 4
• Chez le docteur — Song
• Je te veux — Song
• La diva de “L’Empire” — Song
• L’omnibus automobile — Song
• Air du rat — Ludions · No. 1
• Spleen — Ludions · No. 2
• La grenouille américaine — Ludions · No. 3
• Air du poète — Ludions · No. 4
• Chanson du chat — Ludions · No. 5
• Portrait de Socrate — Socrate · No. 1
• Bords de l’Ilissus — Socrate · No. 2
• Mort de Socrate — Socrate · No. 3
• Tendrement — Song