Description
His mother, born in London, had English and Scottish blood. And in his work and in his personage, irony, understatement, and British-sounding humour are never far away. Despite an unmistakably French sound in his music, he did not regard himself as a musicien français, as his friend Debussy styled himself on his card.
Erik Satie (1866 – 1925) was not only a renewing type-setter – who broke through the borders between high brow and low brow – but also writer of absurdist and poetic texts.
Pianist Marcel Worms plays known (complete Gnossiennes) and unknown (Sport et divertissement) music of Satie from different periods.
