Satie would, without doubt, come top of any list of eccentric composers. After all, can you imagine anyone else writing a set of Flabby Preludes for a Dog or Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear? His ...

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 ...

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 ...

Publicity image for Alistair McGowan's radio drama about Erik Satie: Three Pieces of a Pear I've hero-worshipped the French composer Erik Satie for many years. Not only was he a hugely innovative and ...

‘He was certainly the oddest person I’ve ever known,’ said Stravinsky. Stately and serene, Erik Satie’s Gymnopédies offer music of radical simplicity and transcendent beauty, from a composer who ...

Even amid the tornado of cultural experimentation that defined La Belle Epoque—those four fertile decades in France that preceded World War I—Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a singularly windy eccentric.

Erik Satie’s Gymnopédie No 1 might be a pop classic, but there’s much, much more to the fascinating and eccentric French composer Film-makers have missed a trick with the life of Erik Satie. A biopic ...

Pianist Pascal Rogé takes a personal and musical journey through Erik Satie's Gymnopédies. With Cathy Ace. From 2013. Show more Pascal Rogé is one of the world's greatest interpreters of French piano ...

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 ...