Satie the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert Hall (Oxford Monographs on Music) de Whiting, Steven Moore

Hardback reprint 2002. Cover has some dents. Otherwise like new with clean text.

Description: The composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) came of age in the bohemian sub-culture of Montmartre, with its artists' cabarets and cafés-concerts. These colorful milieux decisively shaped his aesthetic priorities and compositional strategies, from the esoteric Gymnopédies of the 1880s to the avant-garde ballets of the 1920s. Whiting makes this radical transvaluation of received artistic values more understandable by placing it in the full context of bohemian Montmartre.

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Apologists have often tried to play down Erik Satie's connection to the bohemian subculture of Montmartre. In this book Whiting argues that far from harming his reputation, this connection decisively shaped his aesthetic priorities and

Clarendon Press , pp. 608 . Hardback. New.

Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, 1999. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 612 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.75 inches.

Clarendon Press, 1999-04-15. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!