Velvet Gentleman
Nick Richardson: Erik Satie, 4 June 2015
A Mammal’s Notebook: The Writings of Erik Satie
edited by Ornella Volta, translated by Antony Melville.
Atlas, 224 pp., £17.50, June 2014,978 1 900565 66 0 Show More
edited by Ornella Volta, translated by Antony Melville.
Atlas, 224 pp., £17.50, June 2014,
“... One thing everyone knows about Erik Satie is that he was an eccentric. There are many kinds of eccentric and Satie was most of them. He presented himself as a nutty professor figure, not a composer but a ‘gymnopedist’ and ‘phonometrician’. He dined – or so he claimed in his autobiography – only on ‘food that is white: eggs, sugar, shredded bones, the fat of dead animals ... ”
