Among those influenced by him during his lifetime were Maurice Ravel and Francis Poulenc, and he is seen as an influence on more recent, minimalist, composers such as John Cage and John Adams. Satie's example guided a new generation of French composers away from post- Wagnerian impressionism towards a sparer, terser style. A meeting with Jean Cocteau in 1915 led to the creation of the ballet Parade (1917) for Serge Diaghilev, with music by Satie, sets and costumes by Pablo Picasso and choreography by Léonide Massine. Among them were the group known as Les Six. From about 1910 he became the focus of successive groups of young composers attracted by his unconventionality and originality. His studies there were more successful than those at the Conservatoire.

He also wrote music for a Rosicrucian sect to which he was briefly attached.Īfter a spell in which he composed little, Satie entered Paris's second music academy, the Schola Cantorum, as a mature student. In the 1880s he worked as a pianist in café-cabaret in Montmartre, Paris, and began composing works, mostly for solo piano, such as his Gymnopédies. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire but was an undistinguished student and obtained no diploma. He was the son of a French father and a British mother. Eric Alfred Leslie Satie ( UK: / ˈ s æ t i, ˈ s ɑː t i/, US: / s æ ˈ t iː, s ɑː ˈ t iː/ French: – 1 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist.

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