Satie, the drunk; Satie, the genious (Dylan Thomas of music?); Satie, the Montparnasse Bad-Boy

[DemoTex]

My new favorite French composer. What an avant gard genious!

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[MuseRider]

1. Great composer!

I love his music. In fact, I had 4 kittens show up at my farm and I named two of them after him. One was Erik one other named Satie. That was a great time for music.

[dem644555il]

6. +1

[Mira]

2. Magnificent. Thank you! n/t

[Joe Shlabotnik]

3. Thanks for posting.

You must have read my subconscious mind. Exactly what I wanted to hear at this very moment, although I didn't even realize it until you posted it.

[dmallind]

4. Meh. Never been a fan

It's not the modernism that bothers me either. I have everything of Sorabji's ever made commercially available, for example. Satie just seems empty twiddling to me.

Alternatively if you want a drunken badboy composer try this guy... Mussorgsky. I've gotten on the outside of a few thousand beers in my time but I am pretty sure I never looked like this.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. Yes, Mussorgsky has to be the champion alcohoic composer of all time

In the color version of that portrait, painted a week before his death just shy of his 42nd birthday, his nose is red.

He was dismissed from his civil service job a year before he died and subsisted on the kindness of friends after that.

But Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina are wonderfully Russian operas.