The spare, haunting melodies of composer and pianist Erik Satie have inspired a wide range of musicians, from his contemporary Claude Debussy to The Velvet Underground's John Cale. Guitarists Jonathan ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. No one came closer to the early 20th-century avant-garde ideal that an artist’s creations and his life should be ...

Erik Satie (1866-1925) said and did a lot of memorable things, many remarkably outlandish. Brilliant and bonkers, he composed works that range from cabaret ditties to a "symphonic drama," from light ...

Camerata Pacifica's May program opens with Debussy's "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune," the composer's lush depiction of French poet Stéphane Mallarmé's erotic, hedonistic dreamscape in which a ...

Thank the gods of funny, then, for the French composer Erik Satie: surrealist, satirist, top-notch eccentric and a man whose output is joyously impossible to categorise. These days Satie, who was born ...

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group performed memorial pieces by Debussy’s contemporaries alongside new works to mark the centenary of the composer’s death In 1920, two years after Claude Debussy’s ...

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 ...