Erik Satie

Informationen zum Autor Mary E. Davis is a member of the Capstone Faculty at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs. Her books include Classic Chic (2006), Erik Satie (Reaktion, 2007) and Ballets Russes Style (Reaktion, 2010). Klappentext A musical composer who dabbled in the Dada movement, a Bohemian 'gymnopédiste' of fin-de-siècle 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. This book tells his story. Zusammenfassung A musical composer who dabbled in the Dada movement, a Bohemian ‘gymnopédiste’ of fin-de-siècle 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. This book tells his story.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Davis, Mary E. Davis
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2007
• EAN: 9781861893215
• ISBN: 978-1-86189-321-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Critical Lives; Critical Lives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Frankreich, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Musiker, Sänger, Bands und Gruppen, Biografien: Kunst und Unterhaltung, Komponisten und Songwriter