Gnossienne no 1 lent erik satie biography

The fact that the majority of the letters concerning these projects come from the summer months shows that the annual exodus of his wealthier friends for the South of France left Satie lonely and depressed in dingy Arcueil. The demand for his music dried up and so did the loans he relied on to keep body and soul together.

Gnossienne pronunciation

In such moments he often questioned why he composed at all and his anger at what music had done to him often bursts forth in his wartime summer letters. It seems to me that I am cursed. I am looking for and want to find a position, an employment, however menial. I shit on Art: it has torn me up too often. I found a fine translation.

Plato is a perfect collaborator, very gentle and never troublesome.

Gnossienne no. 2

Long live Plato! Long live Victor Cousin! Very free! What happiness! The intervening norm if Satie could ever be described as normal was one of constant hard work—drafting, honing down and polishing his music with meticulous care. For Satie composed from an inner necessity, because he never seriously considered anything other than a life devoted to music.

All he wished for was the freedom to compose what he wanted when he wanted, without material constraints, though the coincidence of all these ideal factors in Socrate was a rare event.