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Satie, Erik
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The French composer Erik Satie was born on May 17, 1866, and died on
July 1, 1925, was the son of an English mother and a Parisian music publisher.
He entered the Paris Conservatory in 1879 but failed to benefit from
academic education, which he embarked on again only in his 40th year, when he
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.... the most important of Satie's works is Socrate , an harsh
setting for four sopranos and chamber orchestra of Plato's account of the death
of Socrates. The young composers who formed the essentially Parisian group
known as Les Six regarded Satie as a kind of tutelary genius, and in 1923 one of
them, Darius Milhaud, tried to found an "Ecole d'Arcueil," named for the obscure
Paris suburb where Satie lived in extreme poverty.
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