1884
In the background you can hear Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1 (1888, orchestration by Debussy) from an old shellac disc of the 30's.

"Following a rather short adolescence, I became an ordinary young man, tolerable nat no more. At that moment in my life I began to think and write music. Oh yes. - Wretched idea ! ...very wretched idea !" (1924, Writings, p.64)
On May 17, 1866 Erik Satie was born in Honfleur in the Normandy.
His father has in Paris a bookshop and a small music-publishing. When his mother dies in 1872, Erik is given to the grandparents to Honfleur.
From the organist Vinot he gets piano lessons and an important musical orientation: "As he was told by this teacher that church and light entertainment, religious and operetta does not exclude one another, he was already close to the practice of the cabaret singers, their aggressive texts sung to melodies of hymns."
Important suggestions for his artistic development Erik gets by his beloved and highly idiosyncratic uncle Adrien ("Sea-Bird"). His uncle is known in the city for example because of his self-made fantastic magnificent vehicle. Uncle "Sea-Bird" introduces Erik to the world of the showmen, lets see him behind the scenes. "There is no better preparation for the later composition of Parade (1917)."
As Erik's Grandmother in 1878 when bathing is killed, his father takes him to Paris and provides for him itself. He is looking to him for a teacher in Latin and Greek. Several attempts to start a career as a pianist at the Conservatory fail on Erik's alleged "laziness" and "non-serious".
His first compositions were printed in the music publishing house of his father, including the well-known Gymnopedies (1888).
(Grete Wehmeyer, Rowohlt 2005, S.9 ff.-own translation)

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