Erik Satie
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"This life takes place in obscurity, in obscure drollity. Satie goes down the way of nonsense, but he encounters it with irony: He keeps a distance to nonsense, smiling. At the same time he reaches out into depths, into abysses - into the meaning of life. He was called Monsieur Le Pauvre and he always stayed poor, never able to keep a hold on something but always losing, in the end losing himself - and in that way he might have found the truth.

[Dieter Schnebel: Gothische Tänze, Schlaffe Präludien [für einen Hund], Sport und Vergnügen; in: Musik - Konzepte 11]