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    Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. He was the son of...
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    Montmartre The Rue Lepic with its Les Deux Moulins café, made famous by the 2001 film Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain Erik Satie's house The Place...
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    began a short-lived affair with composer Erik Satie, moving to a room next to his on the Rue Cortot. Satie became obsessed with her, calling her his...
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    Bilhaud, Sarah England, Paul Verlaine, Henri Rivière, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Charles Cros, Jules Laforgue, Yvette Guilbert, Charles Moréas, Albert...
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    Madeleine Malraux (category Musicians from Toulouse)
    concerts at the La Pléiade art gallery directed by André Malraux. She played Erik Satie, then forgotten, and Benjamin Britten, who was not yet famous. On 13 March...
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    Charles Gounod, Jules Massenet, Vincent d'Indy, Camille Saint-Saëns, Erik Satie, Igor Stravinsky, Sidney Bechet. In the Middle Ages, music was an important...
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    of Things Past) (1913). At an evening in 1914 her guests listened to Erik Satie at the piano playing his new work Trois morceaux en forme de poire. That...
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    Dwalingen/Errrances, 1993 Le caravane du Zaire de Gréty, 1991 Chant et Piano Erik Satie, 1987 Le Jugement de Midas, 1981/1987 Pygmalion, 1981 Vanhecke is a music...
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    (2014-07-01), Les Six: The French Composers and Their Mentors Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie, Peter Owen Publishers, ISBN 978-0-7206-1774-0, retrieved 2017-07-02 Smith...
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    Aleister Crowley, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, August Strindberg, and Erik Satie. The aura of illicitness and mystery surrounding absinthe has played into...
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    influence was Erik Satie, according to Nichols Debussy's "most faithful friend" amongst French musicians. Debussy's orchestration in 1896 of Satie's Gymnopédies...
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    chamber music and other musical forms, stand in particular, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie and Maurice Ravel . Several foreign-born composers, such as Frédéric Chopin...
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    1917. It was produced by Diaghilev with sets by Picasso and music by Erik Satie; it was first performed in Paris on May 18, 1917. Marcel Proust, in fragile...
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    masterpieces, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Several noted composers, including Erik Satie, also lived in this neighborhood. Most of the artists left after the outbreak...
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    which was never produced. 69 Rue Pigalle - In 1966, Stephen Apostoloff was set to produce and direct a film called 69 Rue Pigalle, based on Ed Wood's novel...
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    1922, Le Corbusier and his cousin Jeanneret opened a studio in Paris at 35 rue de Sèvres. His theoretical studies soon advanced into many different architectural...
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    three years of his life mostly confined to his bedroom of his apartment 44 rue Hamelin (in Chaillot), sleeping during the day and working at night to complete...
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    films such as The Bells (1926), The Man Who Laughs (1928) and Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932), and had a major influence on American horror films of the...
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    sources, the Académie de La Palette was originally located in Montparnasse, Rue de l'Arrivée in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, and may have had as founder...
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  • notably in Guérin's case among leading literary figures. Friends included Erik Satie, Picasso, Maurice Rostand, Madeleine and Marcelin Castaing, Maurice Sachs...
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