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Erik Satie

1866 - 1925

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Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (born 17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925), 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 an undistinguished student 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erik Satie is the 62nd most popular composer (down from 56th in 2019), the 213th most popular biography from France (down from 199th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Composer.

Erik Satie was a French composer and pianist who was most famous for his "Gymnopédies" and "Gnossiennes".

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Among composers, Erik Satie ranks 62 out of 1,451. Before him are Carl Maria von Weber, Guillaume Du Fay, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Gounod, and Anton Webern. After him are Gabriel Fauré, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Henry Purcell, Dieterich Buxtehude, Carl Orff, and Vangelis.

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Among people born in 1866, Erik Satie ranks 5. Before him are H. G. Wells, Wassily Kandinsky, Romain Rolland, and Sun Yat-sen. After him are George Gurdjieff, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Alfred Werner, Charles Nicolle, Benedetto Croce, Jacinto Benavente, and Giovanni Agnelli. Among people deceased in 1925, Erik Satie ranks 3. Before him are Sun Yat-sen, and Rudolf Steiner. After him are Friedrich Ebert, Gottlob Frege, Alexandra of Denmark, Maria Sophie of Bavaria, William Jennings Bryan, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Georgy Lvov, Johann Palisa, and Sergei Yesenin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Erik Satie ranks 213 out of 6,770. Before him are Zinedine Zidane (1972), Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928), Charles IV of France (1294), Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark (1934), Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810), and Petronius (27). After him are Pope Sylvester II (938), Charles the Bold (1433), Jacques Cousteau (1910), Jeanne Calment (1875), Henri Rousseau (1844), and Frédéric Passy (1822).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Erik Satie ranks 9. Before him are Hector Berlioz (1803), Georges Bizet (1838), Claude Debussy (1862), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683), and Charles Gounod (1818). After him are Gabriel Fauré (1845), François Couperin (1668), Jules Massenet (1842), Josquin des Prez (1450), Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1645), and Olivier Messiaen (1908).

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