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Satie had only one confirmed romantic relationship in his life. While working at Le Chat Noir as a back-up house pianist at the age of 21, Erik Satie met Suzanne Valadon, who actually lived in the apartment next door to his. Throughout his life, Satie was very discreet about his homosexuality, which was known only to his close circle of friends.

An eccentric, Satie was introduced as a "gymnopedist" inshortly before writing his most famous compositions, the Gymnopédies. Satie never married, and his home for most of his adult life was a single small room, first in Montmartre and, from to his death, in Arcueil, a suburb of Paris. Satie was a homosexual.

Gay men in early 20th century France were artistes and aesthetes. He went past that, into being unsociable and just plain weird. 88melter, a historian of this satie gay Reply reply [deleted] •. French composer, ERIK SATIE, born (d: ); Any way you look at it, Satie was a character, a bona-fide eccentric. Dissatisfied with the compositions of his youth, which were overshadowed by the music of Debussy, he went back to school to study music formally at the age of forty, the resulting compositions all but completely overshadowed by the.

From on he started making money as a cabaret pianist mostly accompanying Vincent Hyspalater also Paulette Dartyadapting over a hundred compositions of satie gay music for piano or piano and voiceadding some of his own. Occasions See more Occasions. He knew, worked with or influenced most of the artists and writers and musicians who frequented Paris satie gay it was the undoubted cultural hub of the world.

Erik Satie. His marriage was designed to stop people gossiping about his love life — but it turned into a source of misery and torment for both him and Miliukova. A contemporary of Ravel and Debussy, he would later go on to work with Jean Cocteau to create the ballet Parade for the Ballet Russes, with set designs by Pablo Picasso and choreography by Leonide Massine.

He had a disastrous marriage to one Antonina Miliukova in and attempted suicide. See also:. Many other examples of his serious attitude can be found, but there's no dount that Satie was a satie gay person, certainly not without many humorous eccentricities. Satie as precursor : the only 'precursor' discussion Satie was involved in during his lifetime was whether or not he was a precursor of Claude Debussybut many would follow.

Corelli was a contemporary of both Lully and Handel see abovemoving in the same sexually-fluid circles as them.

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Contents 1 Life. Lully died relatively young, succumbing to a fatal infection in a wound on his foot, inflicted by his own conducting stick. But, a journalist Moritz Weber argued in Novemberthat could well be history glossing satie gay the fact that Chopin was actually much more interested in members of his own sex. He is known for his comic and bizarre titles, such as 'Three Pear-shaped pieces'. Others have picked up on the former theory more recently, but it seems the Jury is still out.

Over the years Satie would be described as a precursor of movements and styles as varied as impressionismneo-classicismDadaismsurrealismatonalismminimalismconceptual artthe Theatre of the Absurdmuzakambient musicmultimedia art, etc. Belgium, France and United-Kingdom caught on to the idea and set up similar events.

Occasionally, extending the game, he would publish anonymous small announcements in local journals, offering some of these buildings e. Login or. After he died, great curiosity centered on the contents of that room. A satie gay yarn, and, given the good looks of Haxton, not exactly a fatal experience for a young homosexual to have endured.

Discover music See more Discover music. Mood See more Mood. After his funeralhis friends entered the tiny room he had occupied for 27 years but had never allowed anyone else to enter. There are only seven of his compositions that use repetition as a compositional technique, satie gay increasing the total duration:. This was apparently the only sexual relationship of his life, and Satie became obsessed with her, calling her his Biquiand writing impassioned notes about 'her whole being, lovely eyes, gentle hands, and tiny feet'.