In 1905 he entered the Schola Cantorum as a student and studied orchestration and counterpoint. He wrote various pieces of piano, ballet, symphonic, and chamber music, but his fortunes did not change until 1911, when Maurice Ravel performed the Sarabandes at a concert, and Debussy conducted a performance of two numbers from Gymnopédies that Debussy had orchestrated. Both performances were well received, and from this time Satie's music gradually began to be performed and published.
The poet Jean Cocteau...