Erik Satie

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Age: 51

Occupation: composer

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Serge Diaghilev

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Pablo Picasso

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Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Erik Satie Jean Cocteau

Paris, France

15.06.17

Dearest friend, if you see Matisse, give him my warm regards, tell him how much I love him. I am penniless, old thing.

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Jean Cocteau

Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, France

18.05.17

I have heard the roar of a bayonet attack in Flanders, but it was nothing compared to what was happening in Théâtre du Châtelet! On the night of "Parade's" premier I was surprised at Diaghilev. This brave man listened to the roar of the hall, all white in the face as if a dead man. He was afraid—and he had reasons to be afraid. See more

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Serge Diaghilev

Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, France

18.05.17

The premiere of the ballet "Parade."

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Igor Stravinsky

The production impressed me with its freshness and real originality. "Parade" has actually convinced me how right I was, when I thought so highly of Satie’s accomplishments and the role he played in French music by having contrasted the dim aesthetics of the age of impressionism, already living out its time, with his powerful and expressive language, devoid of any kind of pretentiousness and adornments.

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Romain Rolland

Grand Hotel Chateau Bellevue, Sierre, Switzerland

18.05.17

The opening of Saisons Russes in Paris. For the whole of Paris (and English officers) this represented the ascension of cubism to the throne, on the stage of du Châtelet. Picasso, Eric Satie. The snobs had their mouths agape with admiration.

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Age: 51

Occupation: composer

Friends

Serge Diaghilev

Pablo Picasso

Igor Stravinsky