Erik Satie was an important French composer from the generation of
Debussy. Best remembered for several groups of piano pieces, including
Trois Gymnopédies (1888), Trois Sarabandes (1887) and Trois Gnossiennes
(1890), he was championed by Jean Cocteau and helped create the famous
group of French composers, Les Six,
which was fashioned after his artistic ideal of simplicity in the
extreme. Some have viewed certain of his stylistic traits as components
of Impressionism, but his harmonies and melodies have relatively little
in common with the characteristics of that school...
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