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Erik Satie
Born into a family of shipping agents, orphaned from his Scottish mother at the
age of 2, Erik Satie received an eclectic upbringing. His father remarried
Eugénie Barnetsche, a pianist-composer whom he despised. Gifted but
extraordinarily lazy, he attended the Paris Conservatoire and began composing.
Attracted by mysticism, he became a composer for the Rosicrucian association and
pianist at the Chat Noir cabaret in Montmartre. In his private life, his
friendship with Claude Debussy inflamed his complexes, and his stormy affair
with Suzanne Valadon, mother of the painter Maurice U...
