Customer Reviews:
 Erik Satie: an obsession for creativity January 19, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Orledge's Satie Remembered, translated into English by Roger Nichols, is a nice suprise for those who wants to build up a picture of who was and what was importance of Satie to modern music. Through a collection of writings of his acquaintances, artists friends (e.g. Ravel, Debussy, Stravisnky), and even people who did not go along with him, we learn a lot of his genius and a sort of obsessive thrive to innovate, to create and introduce new concepts based on his particular views and the way he saw not only music, but art in its several forms and his excentricity in a Paris from the beginning of XIX Century. It is amazing that you can find 1,250,000 citations about E. Satie at Google, but for sure it is much more pleasant and worthwhile to know who was Satie through Orledge's book. I recommend this book and congratulate the author for his fine job.
Satie by his peers April 1, 2000
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Robert Orledge is an expert on Satie. From his hand is the excellent book 'Satie the Composer'. In this book Orledge assembled citations from peer artists about the great French artist and composer Erik Satie. It's great to read these first hand passages and anecdotes. A must for every Satie fan and lover of French culture. Erik Fokke, Amsterdam - The Netherlands
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