Erik Satie was a French composer and pianist, born on May 17th, 1866 and by all accounts, he was thought of as a talentless musician in his formative years. At least that’s how Georges Mathias ...

In his splendid book on the French avant-garde during the 30 years preceding World War I, Roger Shattuck describes composer Erik Satie as ... was nearly always looking at things askance ...

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 ...

Latour’s historical recognition is largely due to one of those Parisian friends: Erik Satie, the inventively eccentric and eccentrically inventive composer who came to personify Bohemian Paris ...

Alistair McGowan travels to Paris on the trail of his musical hero, the visionary French composer and pianist Erik Satie, who is probably now most well-known as the composer of three short piano ...

In his upcoming performance of Erik Satie’s piece ‘Vexations’ at London’s Southbank Centre, Levit will once again recreate ...

When it comes to Erik Satie’s “Vexations,” I have thus ... a 24-hour proposition give or take a couple of hours depending upon tempo choices, I have always (perhaps conveniently) had ...

Written by Erik Satie in 1893, Vexations” is described as “one of classical music’s most simple, yet arduous and demanding works”. Satie’s manuscript included a composer’s note ...

Erik Satie was a very odd cove indeed. He ate only white food, dressed in identical grey outfits every day of the week, was a hypochondriac and an alcoholic, and a man so paranoid that he carried ...

Alistair McGowan travels to Paris on the trail of his musical hero, the visionary Erik Satie - now most well-known as the composer of the Gymnopedies. Satie was famously eccentric - he replaced ...