The extreme simplicity of many of Satie’s pieces, their thin textures and strange, unprepared harmonies, coupled with his idiosyncratic sense of humour, have led many to view him as the clown (or the ...

Next month, one of classical music’s rarest monsters will be heard on the stage of London’s Southbank Centre: Erik Satie’s ...

Vexations...is arguably the first ever piece of conceptual art. Erik Satie's Vexations is a single page of music whose instruction from the composer is for it to be ...