Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (born 1866)

Erik Satie

French composer and pianist (1866–1925)

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…