Erik Satie e le origini dell’avanguardia musicale

The figure of Erik Satie, whose music is «unclean by vocation», is emblematic of the attempt to open a creative dialogue with other artistic practices, annihilating the boundaries between them and breaking with musical tradition, preparing the ground for the emancipation of the arts that will arise as one of the most important acquisitions of contemporary art. Evaluations about his production and poetics were often misleading, reductive and ungenerous. Instead, beyond the ingenuity and simplicity that at first glance can demonstrate, they disclose indisputable revolutionary and avant-gardistic tension.