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Mémoire d'un amnésique
Surnommé à ses débuts " Esotérik Satie ", par son concitoyen Alphonse Allais et dépeint par Claude Debussy comme " un musicien médiéval et doux, égaré dans ce siècle ", Erik Satie est né à Honfleur en 1896 d'un père normand et d'une mère anglo-écossaise et mourut à Paris en 1925. Par la suite il toucha aux genres les plus divers de l'expression musicale - de la musique " à genoux " à la chanson populaire, du " ballet instantanéiste " au drame symphonique et à la comédie lyrique - ne manquant pas d'en inventer de nouveaux, telle la " musique d'ameublement ", faite " pour ne pas être écoutée ", ou la musique de film qu'il conçut à une époque où le cinéma était encore muet (Entr'acte de René Clair, 1924). Outre des notes autobiographiques et des aphorismes percutants, l'oeuvre écrite d'Erik Satie témoigne d'une réflexion aiguë sur la musique et ses praticiens. Reprenant les différents titres de rubriques utilisés par l'auteur, nous présentons ici l'ensemble des textes qu'il a publiés sous son nom dans diverses revues d'avant-garde. Son esprit y revêt mille formes divertissantes. Il va de l'humour pince-sans-rire au mot le plus cru, de l'ironie la plus fine à la cocasserie ahurissante. Ces écrits sont évidemment des morceaux d'anthologie. Ils sont dignes d'Alphonse Allais et de Jules Renard, comme d'Alfred Jarry.
- GenresMusic
179 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2010
About the author
Erik Satie
468 books55 followersÉric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 1866 – Paris, 1 July 1925; signed his name Erik Satie after 1884) was a French composer and pianist. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde. His work was a precursor to later artistic movements such as minimalism, repetitive music, and the Theatre of the Absurd.
An eccentric, Satie was introduced as a "gymnopedist" in 1887, shortly before writing his most famous compositions, the Gymnopédies. Later, he also referred to himself as a "phonometrician" (meaning "someone who measures sounds") preferring this designation to that of a "musician", after having been called "a clumsy but subtle technician" in a book on contemporary French composers published in 1911.
In addition to his body of music, Satie also left a remarkable set of writings, having contributed work for a range of publications, from the dadaist 391 to the American top culture chronicle Vanity Fair. Although in later life he prided himself on always publishing his work under his own name, in the late nineteenth century he appears to have used pseudonyms such as Virginie Lebeau and François de Paule in some of his published writings.
An eccentric, Satie was introduced as a "gymnopedist" in 1887, shortly before writing his most famous compositions, the Gymnopédies. Later, he also referred to himself as a "phonometrician" (meaning "someone who measures sounds") preferring this designation to that of a "musician", after having been called "a clumsy but subtle technician" in a book on contemporary French composers published in 1911.
In addition to his body of music, Satie also left a remarkable set of writings, having contributed work for a range of publications, from the dadaist 391 to the American top culture chronicle Vanity Fair. Although in later life he prided himself on always publishing his work under his own name, in the late nineteenth century he appears to have used pseudonyms such as Virginie Lebeau and François de Paule in some of his published writings.
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November 5, 2023
2 1/2 ⭐️
June 18, 2024
Só o Barão Medusa, parente não muito distante do Rei Ubu, salva esta colecção da total irrelevância.
February 19, 2017
Lupsakka, pulpahteleva, polkuileva, vähän kettuileva, puliseva. Lyhyitä tekstejä mm. Kriitikoista, eläimistä, kahviloista, eläimistä, syömisestä, musikaalisista eläimistä ja Erik Satiesta. Tarkka selonteko säveltäjän päivästä (omituista sakkia).
"Kun olin nuori, minulle sanottiin aina: huomaatte kyllä, kun olette viisikymmenvuotias. Olen viisikymmenvuotias. En ole huomannut mitään".
"Kun olin nuori, minulle sanottiin aina: huomaatte kyllä, kun olette viisikymmenvuotias. Olen viisikymmenvuotias. En ole huomannut mitään".
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