SATIE, Erik

A slow starter, whose early adult years were devoted more to radical religion and politics than music (and his music mostly to tickling the ivories in Paris cabarets), Satie returned to music school in 1905 for three years of intensive study. Not until 1915 did his more serious music begin to receive recognition, and his reputation has grown enormously since his death. The last decade of Satie's life was consumed with such commissions as Parade (1917) for Serge Diaghilev's...