Strange Mr. Satie: Composer of the Absurd - by M T Anderson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Introduces the life of the French composer, Erik Satie, who spent his entire career challenging established conventions in music.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>In a brilliant performance worthy of the composer, M. T. Anderson and Petra Mathers present a picture-book biography of the singular Erik Satie.</b> <p/><i>Throughout his life, Erik Satie wanted to make a new kind of music, a kind of music both very young and very old, very bold and very shy, that followed no rules but its own.</i> <p/>At first glance, Erik Satie looked as normal as anyone else in Paris one hundred years ago. Beyond his shy smile, however, was a mind like no other. When Satie sat down at the piano to compose or play music, his tunes were strange and dreamlike, his melodies topsy-turvy and discordant. Many people hated his music. Few understood it. But to Erik Satie there was sense in nonsense, and the vibrant, surreal compositions of this eccentric man-child would go on to influence many artists.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>M. T. Anderson</b> is the author of <i>Handel, Who Knew What He Liked, </i> illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. He also wrote the National Book Award-winning<i> The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party</i> and its follow-up, <i>Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves. </i>His novel <i>Feed</i> was a National Book Award finalist. M. T. Anderson lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. <p/><b>Petra Mathers</b> says, "Even though he walked everywhere he went, Satie was never a pedestrian; he was always a little aloft." Petra Mathers has written and/or illustrated more than thirty books for children, four of which won <i>New York Times</i> Best Illustrated Children's Books honors. Her first book, <i> Maria Theresa, </i> was awarded the Ezra Jack Keats Medal. She lives in Astoria, Oregon.
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