Erik Satie

(1866-1925)

French composer and pianist

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Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (, ; 17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. Satie was an influential artist in the late 19th- and early 20th-century Parisian avant-garde. His work was a precursor to later artistic movements such as minimalism, repetitive music, and the Theatre of the Absurd, while his 1917 coinage "furniture music" would presage the development of background and ambient music.

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Born	Alfred Éric Leslie Satie 17 May 1866 Honfleur, Calvados, France
Died	1 July 1925 (aged 59) Paris, France
Zodiac	Taurus
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