1866 - 1925
Eric 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. He was the son of a French father and a British mother. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, but was an undistinguished student and obtained no diploma. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erik Satie has received more than 3,362,862 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Erik Satie is the 48th most popular composer (up from 49th in 2019), the 157th most popular biography from France (up from 158th 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 48 out of 1,216. Before him are Guido of Arezzo, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Gaetano Donizetti, Tomaso Albinoni, Jean-Baptiste Lully, and Carl Maria von Weber. After him are Anton Bruckner, Carl Orff, Arnold Schoenberg, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Orlande de Lassus, and Aram Khachaturian.
991 - 1050
HPI: 75.43
Rank: 42
1844 - 1908
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 43
1797 - 1848
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 44
1671 - 1751
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 45
1632 - 1687
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 46
1786 - 1826
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 47
1866 - 1925
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 48
1824 - 1896
HPI: 74.74
Rank: 49
1895 - 1982
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 50
1874 - 1951
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 51
1683 - 1764
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 52
1534 - 1594
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 53
1903 - 1978
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 54
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, Thomas Hunt Morgan, George Gurdjieff, Alfred Werner, Benedetto Croce, Beatrix Potter, Aby Warburg, and Giovanni Agnelli. Among people deceased in 1925, Erik Satie ranks 3. Before him are Sun Yat-sen and Rudolf Steiner. After him are Friedrich Ebert, Gottlob Frege, Alexandra of Denmark, Henri Fayol, William Jennings Bryan, Sergei Yesenin, Georgy Lvov, Felix Klein, and Josef Breuer.
1866 - 1944
HPI: 80.56
Rank: 1
1866 - 1925
HPI: 79.18
Rank: 2
1866 - 1944
HPI: 78.73
Rank: 3
1866 - 1925
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 4
1866 - 1946
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 5
1866 - 1945
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 6
1866 - 1949
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 7
1866 - 1919
HPI: 70.70
Rank: 8
1866 - 1952
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 9
1866 - 1943
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 10
1866 - 1929
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 11
1866 - 1945
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 12
1866 - 1925
HPI: 79.18
Rank: 1
1861 - 1925
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 2
1866 - 1925
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 3
1871 - 1925
HPI: 72.46
Rank: 4
1848 - 1925
HPI: 72.19
Rank: 5
1844 - 1925
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 6
1841 - 1925
HPI: 69.84
Rank: 7
1860 - 1925
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 8
1895 - 1925
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 9
1861 - 1925
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 10
1849 - 1925
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 11
1842 - 1925
HPI: 66.53
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Erik Satie ranks 157 out of 6,011. Before him are Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754), Évariste Galois (1811), Pope Sylvester II (938), Jean-François Millet (1814), Guy de Maupassant (1850), and Jacques Cousteau (1910). After him are Charles IX of France (1550), Charles Baudelaire (1821), Francis II of France (1544), Jacques Cartier (1491), Catherine Deneuve (1943), and Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122).
1754 - 1838
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 151
1811 - 1832
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 152
938 - 1003
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 153
1814 - 1875
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 154
1850 - 1893
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 155
1910 - 1997
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 156
1866 - 1925
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 157
1550 - 1574
HPI: 74.96
Rank: 158
1821 - 1867
HPI: 74.89
Rank: 159
1544 - 1560
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 160
1491 - 1557
HPI: 74.78
Rank: 161
1943 - Present
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 162
1122 - 1204
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 163
Among composers born in France, Erik Satie ranks 7. Before him are Georges Bizet (1838), Claude Debussy (1862), Hector Berlioz (1803), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520), Maurice Ravel (1875), and Camille Saint-Saëns (1835). After him are Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683), Charles Gounod (1818), Josquin des Prez (1450), Jules Massenet (1842), Gabriel Fauré (1845), and Olivier Messiaen (1908).
1838 - 1875
HPI: 79.01
Rank: 1
1862 - 1918
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 2
1803 - 1869
HPI: 78.80
Rank: 3
1520 - 1594
HPI: 77.68
Rank: 4
1875 - 1937
HPI: 77.40
Rank: 5
1835 - 1921
HPI: 76.03
Rank: 6
1866 - 1925
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 7
1683 - 1764
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 8
1818 - 1893
HPI: 72.23
Rank: 9
1450 - 1521
HPI: 71.68
Rank: 10
1842 - 1912
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 11
1845 - 1924
HPI: 71.31
Rank: 12
1908 - 1992
HPI: 70.17
Rank: 13