1866 - 1925
Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (UK: , US: ; French: [eʁik sati]; 17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. Satie was an influential artist in the late 19th- and early 20th-century Parisian avant-garde. His work was a precursor to later artistic movements such as minimalism, repetitive music, and the Theatre of the Absurd.An eccentric, Satie was introduced as a "gymnopedist" in 1887, shortly before writing his most famous compositions, the Gymnopédies. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erik Satie has received more than 2,180,481 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Erik Satie is the 49th most popular composer (up from 55th in 2019), the 158th most popular biography from France (up from 172nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Composer.
Erik Satie was a French composer and pianist who was most famous for his "Gymnopédies" and "Gnossiennes".
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Among composers, Erik Satie ranks 49 out of 1,228. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Lully, Tomaso Albinoni, Arnold Schoenberg, Carl Maria von Weber, Orlande de Lassus, and Gaetano Donizetti. After him are Carl Orff, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Vincenzo Bellini, Georg Philipp Telemann, Guido of Arezzo, and Anton Bruckner.
1632 - 1687
HPI: 81.83
Rank: 43
1671 - 1751
HPI: 81.65
Rank: 44
1874 - 1951
HPI: 81.48
Rank: 45
1786 - 1826
HPI: 81.47
Rank: 46
1534 - 1594
HPI: 81.44
Rank: 47
1797 - 1848
HPI: 81.08
Rank: 48
1866 - 1925
HPI: 80.95
Rank: 49
1895 - 1982
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 50
1683 - 1764
HPI: 80.71
Rank: 51
1801 - 1835
HPI: 80.53
Rank: 52
1681 - 1767
HPI: 80.48
Rank: 53
991 - 1050
HPI: 80.44
Rank: 54
1824 - 1896
HPI: 80.41
Rank: 55
Among people born in 1866, Erik Satie ranks 4. Before him are Wassily Kandinsky, Sun Yat-sen, and Romain Rolland. After him are H. G. Wells, George Gurdjieff, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Beatrix Potter, Benedetto Croce, Alfred Werner, Hans von Seeckt, and Aby Warburg. Among people deceased in 1925, Erik Satie ranks 3. Before him are Sun Yat-sen and Rudolf Steiner. After him are Gottlob Frege, Friedrich Ebert, Alexandra of Denmark, Josef Breuer, William Jennings Bryan, Henri Fayol, Sergei Yesenin, Percy Fawcett, and Mikhail Frunze.
1866 - 1944
HPI: 85.01
Rank: 1
1866 - 1925
HPI: 84.12
Rank: 2
1866 - 1944
HPI: 83.80
Rank: 3
1866 - 1925
HPI: 80.95
Rank: 4
1866 - 1946
HPI: 80.37
Rank: 5
1866 - 1949
HPI: 79.34
Rank: 6
1866 - 1945
HPI: 78.21
Rank: 7
1866 - 1943
HPI: 75.85
Rank: 8
1866 - 1952
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 9
1866 - 1919
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 10
1866 - 1936
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 11
1866 - 1929
HPI: 73.25
Rank: 12
1866 - 1925
HPI: 84.12
Rank: 1
1861 - 1925
HPI: 82.57
Rank: 2
1866 - 1925
HPI: 80.95
Rank: 3
1848 - 1925
HPI: 79.29
Rank: 4
1871 - 1925
HPI: 79.03
Rank: 5
1844 - 1925
HPI: 77.75
Rank: 6
1842 - 1925
HPI: 76.68
Rank: 7
1860 - 1925
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 8
1841 - 1925
HPI: 76.32
Rank: 9
1895 - 1925
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 10
1867 - 1925
HPI: 75.20
Rank: 11
1885 - 1925
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Erik Satie ranks 158 out of 5,234. Before him are François Mitterrand (1916), Christian Dior (1905), Charles V of France (1338), Pope John XXII (1244), Sully Prudhomme (1839), and Louis de Broglie (1892). After him are Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122), Henry Cavendish (1731), Jean Bodin (1530), Pope Sylvester II (938), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683), and Pope Gregory XI (1370).
1916 - 1996
HPI: 81.11
Rank: 152
1905 - 1957
HPI: 81.11
Rank: 153
1338 - 1380
HPI: 81.09
Rank: 154
1244 - 1334
HPI: 81.05
Rank: 155
1839 - 1907
HPI: 81.04
Rank: 156
1892 - 1987
HPI: 81.04
Rank: 157
1866 - 1925
HPI: 80.95
Rank: 158
1122 - 1204
HPI: 80.95
Rank: 159
1731 - 1810
HPI: 80.91
Rank: 160
1530 - 1596
HPI: 80.87
Rank: 161
938 - 1003
HPI: 80.73
Rank: 162
1683 - 1764
HPI: 80.71
Rank: 163
1370 - 1378
HPI: 80.69
Rank: 164
Among composers born in France, Erik Satie ranks 7. Before him are Claude Debussy (1862), Georges Bizet (1838), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520), Hector Berlioz (1803), Maurice Ravel (1875), and Camille Saint-Saëns (1835). After him are Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683), Charles Gounod (1818), Josquin des Prez (1450), Gabriel Fauré (1845), Jules Massenet (1842), and Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1645).
1862 - 1918
HPI: 85.30
Rank: 1
1838 - 1875
HPI: 84.52
Rank: 2
1520 - 1594
HPI: 84.32
Rank: 3
1803 - 1869
HPI: 84.16
Rank: 4
1875 - 1937
HPI: 84.11
Rank: 5
1835 - 1921
HPI: 82.33
Rank: 6
1866 - 1925
HPI: 80.95
Rank: 7
1683 - 1764
HPI: 80.71
Rank: 8
1818 - 1893
HPI: 78.60
Rank: 9
1450 - 1521
HPI: 78.24
Rank: 10
1845 - 1924
HPI: 77.96
Rank: 11
1842 - 1912
HPI: 77.94
Rank: 12
1645 - 1704
HPI: 77.70
Rank: 13