Satie is one of the most curious composers out there, but nothing can dim the charm of his beautiful Gnossiennes for solo piano. Erik Satie was a French composer and pianist, who would, without doubt, ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. A century after the composer’s death, he is ubiquitous on relaxation playlists. Those just scratch the surface of a stranger, more complicated career. Credit...Photo12/Universal ...

Composer Erik Satie was both eccentric and original. Dances from Knossos on Crete inspired his set of Gnossiennes. But unlike traditional dances, Satie's Gnossiennes are written without bar lines.

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 ...

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. Satie’s ...

To mark the centenary of Erik Satie’s death, pianist Alexandre Tharaud releases a landmark recording featuring 27 never-before-heard pieces reconstructed from forgotten manuscripts Nearly a century ...

Als u ooit op zoek bent geweest naar een afspeellijst om u te helpen ontspannen, focussen of in slaap vallen, bent u wellicht op de muziek van Erik Satie gestoten. De kans is groot dat u zijn ...

From one page of sheet music, Russian-German pianist Igor Levit will create a near day-long event. In his upcoming performance of Erik Satie’s piece ‘Vexations’ at London’s Southbank Centre, Levit ...

Satie's GnossiennesSometimes you just want to hear beautiful, simple music. That's what was on Orli Shaham's mind when she was Performance Today's Young Artist in Residence last October. One of the ...