French composer and pianist Erik Satie was born May 17, 1866, in Honfleur, France.

A contrarian, he wrote anti-emotional, anti-virtuosic and anti-Wagnerian music, basically rejecting all the major trends of 19th-century classical music and blazing a new trail — maybe unwittingly — for modernism.
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Erik Satie (1866-1925)
From France’s Famous Composers set
Issued 1992
Designer: René Déssirier

Erik Satie
From Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbian Admin’s Composers 2016 set
Issued 2016
Designer: Nebojša Đumić

 

A restless and undisciplined young man in the newly formed French Third Republic, the teenage Satie found himself booted out of the respectable Paris Conservatory music school for his supposed indifference to the strict demands of the faculty’s programme. Similarly, finding himself dismissed from the 33rd Infantry Regiment after enlisting in the military, Satie moved to lodgings in Paris’ ninth arrondissement and embraced the life of a bohemian, writing his most famous minimalist pieces—1888’s three Gymnopédies and the following year’s first Gnossiennes.
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