He challenged an opera director to a duel for the right to perform his ballet, Uspud, and hid a hammer in his umbrella for self-defense.
He challenged an opera director to a duel for the right to perform his ballet, Uspud, and hid a hammer in his umbrella for self-defense. Early works include the Dreamy Fish and the pantomime Jack in the Box, which were conscious reactions against Debussy. His play "Medusa's Trap" featured pieces known as "monkey dances" and the art of Georges Braque, and his late works like the ballet Relache, containing a film sequence by Rene Clair, and his only opera, Socrates, were increasingly unconventional. FTP, identify this composer of Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear and the Dried-up Embryos, who scored a ballet for typewriter and propeller in Parade and wrote the ambient Gymnopedies, a French composer who was the mentor of Les Six.
He challenged an opera director to a duel for the right to perform his ballet, Uspud, and hid a hammer in his umbrella for self-defense.
Erik-alfred-leslie {Satie}