This composer slid paper between piano strings to give the instrument a more mechanical sound for TheSting of the Jellyfish in what is perhaps the first formal use of a prepared piano.
This composer slid paper between piano strings to give the instrument a more mechanical sound for TheSting of the Jellyfish in what is perhaps the first formal use of a prepared piano. He composed Dansesgothiques as a novena for "the greatest calm and tranquility of [his] soul" while having an affair withSuzanne Valadon. He created Le Picadilly and Je te veux while working as a cabaret pianist. This firstmodern composer to use barless notation helped form Nouveaux Jeunes, the forerunners of Les Six. Inaddition to composing 7 Gnossienes, he named another set of compositions after an ancient Greek dance.For 10 points, name this French composer of 3 GymnopÃ©dies.
This composer slid paper between piano strings to give the instrument a more mechanical sound for TheSting of the Jellyfish in what is perhaps the first formal use of a prepared piano.
Erik Satie