Satie the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert HallThe composer Erik Satie (1866 1925) came of age in the bohemian sub culture of Montmartre, with its artists' cabarets and cafs concerts. These colorful milieux decisively shaped his aesthetic priorities and compositional strategies, from the esoteric Gymnopdies of the 1880s to the avant garde ballets of the 1920s. Whiting makes this radical transvaluation of received artistic values more understandable by placing it in the full context of bohemian