Erik Satie

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…collaborated. By far the most important of Satie's works is Socrate , an harsh setting for four sopranos and chamber orchestra of Plato's account of the death of Socrates. The young composers who formed the essentially Parisian group known as Les Six regarded Satie as a kind of tutelary genius, and in 1923 one of them, Darius Milhaud, tried to found an 'Ecole d'Arcueil,' named for the obscure Paris suburb where Satie lived in extreme poverty.