Eric Satie

Books about Eric Satie and his music

Robert Orledge Satie Remembered Amadeus Press, 2003; ISBN 1574670018; 232 pages Price indication: $ 19.95

M. T. Anderson and Petra Mathers Strange Mr. Satie (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards)) Viking Juvenile, 2003; ISBN 0670036374; 32 pages In Paris, at the turn of the twentieth century, when artists were experimenting with new ways of seeing things, Erik Satie had something new to say about music. Most people didn't understand his pieces; critics called his music surreal. But Erik Satie didn't care. He wanted to make music that followed no rules but its own. Satie's life was strange and wonderful, frenetic and lonely all at the same time. He was friends with Picasso, and with wizards and puppeteers; he scraped himself with a stone instead of bathing, and he once threw his acrobat girlfriend out a window. Now award-winning author M. T. Anderson tells the story of the irreverent French composer in a biography that is witty, accessible, and endlessly surprising, while Petra Mathers' fanciful illustrations capture all the vibrancy that was Erik Satie's topsy-turvy world. Illustrations by Petra Mathers. Price indication: $ 11.55

Steven Moore Whiting Satie the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert Hall (Oxford Monographs on Music) Oxford University Press, 1999; ISBN 0198164580; 612 pages The composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) came of age in the bohemian sub-culture of Montmartre, with its artists' cabarets and cafes-concerts. These colorful milieux decisively shaped his aesthetic priorities and compositional strategies, from the esoteric Gymnopedies of the 1880s to the avant-garde ballets of the 1920s. Moore Whiting makes this radical transvaluation of received artistic values more understandable by placing it in the full context of bohemian Montmartre. Price indication: $ 140.00

Ornella Volta and Simon Pleasance Erik Satie (The Pocket Archives Series) Hazan, 1997; ISBN 2850255653; 197 pages Price indication: $ 12.95

Nancy Perloff Art and the Everyday: Popular Entertainment and the Circle of Erik Satie Oxford Univ Pr, 1991; ISBN 0198163983; 248 pages This book examines the early twentieth-century movement that was sparked by the premiere of Erik Satie's ballet Parade in May 1917. Perloff argues that Satie and his colleagues, including Darius Millhaud, Francis Poulenc, Max Jacob, and Jean Cocteau, led French music away from Impressionism by infusing their compositions with French and American popular idioms. They also adopted aesthetic principles of parody, diversity, nostalgia, and repetition from the Parisian cabaret, cafe-concert, circus, fair, and music hall. With their collaborators Pablo Picasso, Fernand Legér, and Francis Picabia, they shared a radical disregard for traditional divisions separating popular and classical forms of creative expression. Price indication: $ 86.00

Manuel Rosenthal Satie, Ravel, Poulenc: An Intimate Memoir Hanuman Books, 1987; ISBN 0937815098; 81 pages Price indication: $ 5.95

Peter Pickow Satie: Trois Gymnopedies (Concert Performer Series) Amsco Music, 1999; ISBN 0825617405; 7 pages Now the greatest piano pieces of all time are available as individual sheets with a matching CD. Price indication: $ 6.95

Wilkins Writings of Erik Satie Da Capo Pr, 1982; ISBN 0903873575; 178 pages Price indication: $ 111.98

James Harding Erik Satie Secker & Warburg, 1975; ISBN 0436191067; 288 pages Price indication: $ 25.00

Erik Satie and Ornella Volta and Anthony Melville A Mammal's Notebook: Collected Writings of Erik Satie (Atlas Arkhive , No 5) Serpent's Tail, 1997; ISBN 0947757929 Price indication: $ 26.23

Ornella Volta and Michael Bullock Satie: Seen Through His Letters (Satie Land, Cloth) Marion Boyars Publishers, 1989; ISBN 0714528110; 239 pages Price indication: $ 55.53

Rollo H. Myers Erik Satie Dover Pubns, 1968; ISBN 0486219038 Price indication: (used only): from $ 4.37

Pierre-Daniel Templier Erik Satie The MIT Press, 1971; ISBN 0262700050 Price indication: (used only): from $ 7.01

Alan M. Gillmor Erik Satie W W Norton & Co Inc, 1992; ISBN 0393308103 Price indication: (used only): from $ 13.99

Roger Shattuck The banquet years;: The arts in France, 1885-1918: Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie, Guillaume Apollinaire Harcourt, Brace, 1958; 306 pages Price indication: (used only): from $ 249.05

Sheet music, libretti, etc.

Deux Oevres de Jeunesse Choses Vues Droite Et Gauche; Embarquement Pour Cythre - Salabert

Gymnopedie No. 1 for guitar - Mel Bay Publications

Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes and Other Works for Piano - Dover Publications

Parade and Other Works for Piano Four Hands - Dover Publications

Parade in Full Score: Ballet Realiste Sur UN Theme De Jean Cocteau - Dover Publications

Satie for the Guitar - G. Schirmer, Inc.

Three Gymnopedies - Warner Brothers Publications

Twenty Short Pieces for Piano - Dover Publications