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Genre/Form: | Biography |
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Named Person: | Erik Satie; Erik Satie |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Caroline Potter |
ISBN: | 9781783270835 1783270837 |
OCLC Number: | 945088399 |
Description: | xxxiii, 269 pages : illustrations, map, music ; 24 cm. |
Responsibility: | Caroline Potter. |
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Essential reading. CLASSICAL MUSIC No academic library should be without it and both Satie's admirers and detractors will find many thoughtful insights. FONTES ARTIS MUSICAE Potter's scholarly and engaging book brings out the ways in which Satie's music...absorbed the "sonic environment" of the city." SUNDAY TIMES This is a fascinating tour of Satie's richly bizarre Parisian environment, offering new and valuable insights for both listeners and performers. [FOUR STARS] BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE Anyone seriously interested in Satie needs this well-produced, reasonably priced, lucidly expressed and impressively researched book. MUSICAL OPINION [A] welcome new study. LITERARY REVIEW 'This brilliant and accessible new study of Satie gets right inside his contemporary Parisian world, relating its complex and fast-changing artistic climate to scientific and social issues, and most importantly to mechanical and street music. Dr Potter's painstaking and wide research brings many new discoveries too, and leaves us with a clearer vision of what the enigmatic Satie was really about.' Emeritus Professor Robert Orledge, University of Liverpool Read more...

