A century after the composer’s death, he is ubiquitous on relaxation playlists. Those just scratch the surface of a stranger, ...

Erik Satie was a French composer and pianist born in 1866. He was, to put it lightly, eccentric. He started his musical career playing in cabaret-cafes in Montmartre in Paris, and did not complete his ...

Erik Satie had a way with words. There have been few composers who found such obvious glee in the use of language. In written performance indications appended to his scores, he would ask musicians ...

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 ...

Tessa Souter: Making Connections Between Erik Satie, Jazz, and Personal Identity article by Victor L. Schermer, published on June 11, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more Interview articles ...

Wave Notation 3: Erik Satie 1984 was conceived as a compilation of Satie’s “ furniture music,” which proposed the idea of music made to soundtrack daily life long before Eno or anybody else did.

The first section of Erik Satie Three Piece Suite is a continuous biographical narrative. The second is, like Satie’s music, lapidary and melancholy: a series of prose miniatures.

In Erik Satie: Three Piece Suite, a study of the avant-garde pianist, Ian Penman resists the urge to categorise Satie neatly, avoiding the reductive tendencies that often plague biographies.

The concept of background or “ambient” music has a long pedigree. The idea was coined by one of France’s most eccentric classical composers Erik Satie, who died 100 years ago on July 1st, 1925.