Erik Satie

Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925), known as Erik Satie, was a French composer and pianist. Born in Honfleur to a French father and a British mother, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire but did not complete his diploma. In the 1880s, he worked as a pianist in café-cabarets in Montmartre, Paris, and began composing works primarily for solo piano, including "Gymnopédies" and "Gnossiennes". He also wrote music for a Rosicrucian group with which he was briefly affiliated.