Satie the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert Hall

By Steven Moore Whiting

The composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) came of age in the bohemian sub-culture of Montmartre, with its artists' cabarets and caf s-concerts. These colorful milieux decisively shaped his aesthetic priorities and compositional strategies, from the esoteric Gymnop dies of the 1880s to the avant-garde ballets of the 1920s. Whiting makes this radical transvaluation of received artistic values more understandable by placing it in the full context of bohemian Montmartre.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198164580
• ISBN13: 9780198164586
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 604 Pages
• Weight: 2.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"