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Erik Satie 1866–1925

Erik Satie, in his sixtieth year. He was born at Honfleur, on May 17, 1866, the son of an English mother, his baptismal names being Eric Leslie Satie. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire and the Schola Cantorum. An eccentric composer, with a curiously limited sense of humour which showed itself in such titles as ‘Morceaux en forme de poires,’ and in the use of red ink and other peculiarities in the printing of his music, he wrote little of real importance in itself. But his influence on modern French music was considerable, apart from his having been the senior member of the group known as ‘Le Six.’

Musical Times, August 1925