Satie the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert Hall (Hardcover)

Assistant Professor of Musicology Steven Moore Whiting; Steven M Whiting
Clarendon Press
9780198164586
0-19-816458-0

The composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) came of age in the bohemian sub-culture of Montmartre, with its artists' cabarets and cafs-concerts. These colorful milieux decisively shaped his aesthetic priorities.

read more…

and compositional strategies, from the esoteric Gymnopdies of the 1880s to the avant-garde ballets of the 1920s. Whiting makes this radical transvaluation of received artistic values more understandable by placing it in the full context of bohemian Montmartre.