Alfred Éric Leslie Satie (Honfleur, 17 May 1866 – Paris, 1 July 1925) was a French composer and pianist. Starting with his first composition in 1884, he signed his name as Erik Satie.
He referred to himself as a "phonometrograph" or "phonometrician" (meaning "someone who measures - and writes down - sounds") preferring this designation to that of "musician," after having been called "a clumsy but subtle technician" in a book on contemporary French composers published in 1911.
Nevertheless, he wrote some of the most beautiful music for piano this side of Chopin.
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