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Personnage solitaire, mystérieux et pittoresque, Erik Satie (1866-1925) fait figure de génie pour les uns, de mystificateur pour les autres, ou peut–être tout simplement de mystificateur de génie. Le parcours de sa vie est du reste le reflet d’une nature énigmatique mais pleine de sensibilité : engagé volontaire peu fait pour la vie militaire, il ne fera qu’un bref séjour dans l’armée, puis en proie à plusieurs crises de mysticisme, adhèrera à l’ordre de la Rose-Croix avant de fonder l’Eglise métropolitaine d’Art et de Jésus conducteur dont il sera … le seul et uni¬que membre. Créateur enfin de l’Ecole d’Arcueil qui attire à lui les plus grands artistes contemporains, il ne commencera de sérieuses études musicales qu’à l’âge de 40 ans à la Schola Cantorum de Paris, auprès d’Albert Roussel.. / Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a solitary, mysterious and colourful character, who was looked on by some as a brilliant man, by others as a practical joker – or perhaps he was quite simply a brilliant practical joker. Moreover, the course of his life was the reflection of a nature that was enigmatical but full of sensitivity: he volunteered for the army, but he was not really eut out for military life and his stay was short-lived ; then he was a prey to several fits of mysticism and joined the Catholic Rosicrucian sect before founding his own “Eglise Métropolitaine d’Art de Jésus Conducteur”, of which he was the one and only member ! Finally, he was the founder of the Ecole d’Arcueil, which drew the greatest contemporary artists to him, and he only began studying music seriously at the age of forty, when he entered the Schola Cantorum in Paris as a pupil of Albert Roussel.