Lovers of Erik Satie’s exquisite piano music would baulk at the mere suggestion that his later pieces are just mood-setting background music. In fact, it was he that inferred this by describing some ...

Stately and serene, Erik Satie’s Gymnopédies offer music of radical simplicity and transcendent beauty, from a composer who defied convention in his music and in his personal life. M. Erik Satie was ...

The follow-up to Stephanie McCallum's much-loved and best-selling ABC Classics album "Perfume". Satie's Gymnopédie No. 1 is known the world over, but how many other exquisite miniatures did this ...

Today I heard–for the thousandth time– Satie’s famous solo piano tryptic 3 Gymopedies—the title refers to an ancient Spartan dance performed by naked men. Satie was an eccentric who gave his ...

Fête donnée par les Chevaliers Normands en l'h Cristina Ariagno, Piano Erik Satie, Composer (4) Ogives Cristina Ariagno, Piano Erik Satie, Composer Première pensée Rose + Croix Cristina Ariagno, Piano ...

Although scorned by the French music establishment, Erik Satie’s innovations can still be heard in minimalism, muzak and even Aphex Twin. Nick Shave on the maverick composer at 150 On 9 September 1963 ...

Erik Satie's music is better described by what it isn't than what it is. A contrarian, he wrote anti-emotional, anti-virtuosic and anti-Wagnerian music, basically rejecting all the major trends of ...

Thank the gods of funny, then, for the French composer Erik Satie: surrealist, satirist, top-notch eccentric and a man whose output is joyously impossible to categorise. These days Satie, who was born ...