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Satie
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In this lively and imaginative novel, Patrick Roegiers focuses on the simultaneously famous and little-known personality of Erik Satie, a figure who has fascinated him for years. What first captivates him about the musician, too often reduced to anecdotal aspects (his quirks, his jokes, his witticisms), is his extreme and radical solitude, the absolute condition and undivided companion of his creative process. And then, the modernity of his work, long misunderstood and ahead of its time, but constantly rekindled by emotion. We follow its evolution note by note, from the Gymnopédies to the Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear, from the scandal of Parade to Relâche, and to Vexations, a piece of repetitive music before its time that had to be played 840 times. During his lifetime, Satie associated with Debussy, Ravel, and Stravinsky. But also with Picasso, Braque, Cendrars, and Picabia, with whom he was friends. In this book of admiration and With his boundless imagination, which disrupts the clocks and the logic of chronology, Satie, towards the end of his life, reconnects with the great contemporary artists he never knew and who are also his friends: Philip Glass, John Cage, Bob Wilson, and Pina Bausch. As well as Suzanne Valladon, his one true love, and his mother, who died when he was six. Freed from the picturesque and folkloric image too often associated with him, restored to his genius, Satie thus appears as he simply is: an artist, an individual, an original, singular, and deeply endearing man
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