Erik Satie Three Piece Suite

Erik Satie Three Piece Suite - Paperback

$17.95
$17.95
Skip to product information
Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
  • Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
Erik Satie Three Piece Suite - Paperback

Erik Satie Three Piece Suite - Paperback

by Ian Penman
$17.95
$17.95

Book Overview

A masterful study of the elusive French composer, on the centenary of his death.

Composer, pianist, and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle Époque Paris. Known for his unvarying image of bowler hat, three-piece suit, and umbrella, Satie was a surrealist before surrealism and a conceptual artist before conceptual art. Friend of Cocteau and Debussy, Picabia and Picasso, Satie was always a few steps ahead of his peers at the apex of modernism. There's scarcely a turn in postwar music, both classical and popular, that Satie doesn't anticipate. Moving from the variety shows of Montmartre's Le Chat Noir to suburban Arcueil, from the Parisian demimonde to the artistic avant-garde, cult critic Ian Penman's masterful Erik Satie Three Piece Suite is an exhilarating and playful three-part study of this elusive and endlessly fascinating figure, published to mark the centenary of Satie's death.
ISBN9781635902532
Author Ian Penman
PublisherSemiotext(e)
GenreHistory
FormatPaperback
PublishedMay 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages200
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

Related Subjects

History Music Nonfiction

1% fer Each of the Seven Seas

Every purchase sends 7% of our profits to The Ocean Cleanup. No fine print, no opt-in — just how we sail.

Whoever Ye Be, Welcome Aboard

Queer lit, music, art, philosophy, fiction — stories for every kind of soul. Come as ye are, matey.

More by Ian Penman

Erik Satie Three Piece Suite

Erik Satie Three Piece Suite - Paperback

Erik Satie Three Piece Suite - Paperback

By Ian Penman

About Ian Penman

Ian Penman is a British writer, music journalist, and critic. He began his career at the NME in 1977, later contributing to various publications including The Face, Arena, Tatler, Uncut, Sight & Sound, The Wire, The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and City Journal. He is the author of the collections Vital Signs: Music, Movies, and Other Manias (1998) and It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track (2019). His first original book, Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors (Semiotext(e), 2023), won the RSL Ondaatje Prize for Literature and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography in 2024.

You may also like