Satie's ballet Parade, with a scenario by Jean Cocteau and designs by Picasso, became a succès de scandale due to its energetic, jazz-influenced music, including sirens and typewriters.
Cultural Impact
Satie played a role in Dadaism, attempting to change the exalted character of romantic art into something more everyday, as seen in his contacts with Tristan Tzara, the founder of Dadaism.
Compositional Technique
Satie's early piano work Ogives already featured his characteristic frugal use of notes, extremely slow tempi, and seemingly disconnected chords, breaking with traditional dramatic development.
Composer Biography
Erik Satie, born Eric Satie in Honfleur, Normandy, changed the spelling of his first name to 'Erik' in 1884.
Composer Biography
Satie founded his own church, the Église Métropolitaine d'Art de Jésus Conducteur (Metropolitan Church of Art of Jesus the Conductor), of which he was the sole member.
Composer Biography
After Satie's death, a large number of unused umbrellas and a sizeable amount of unknown music were found in his room, which no one had visited in 27 years.
Compositional Technique
Satie's Musique d'ameublement (Music as furniture) was intended to be an incidental and unstressed part of the surroundings, but audiences at an art preview observed a polite silence, irritating the composer.
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