BGM for when you are working, or perhaps before you go to sleep. I imagine many of you have heard it somewhere on a playlist.Erik Satie's "Gymnopédies"Hmm... what kind of song was it again? Even ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pianist Scott Dunn delivers a 2012 performance of Satie's "Vexations" at the Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica. (Allen J.

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 ...

The sky outside the window is cloudy. A light rain is drizzling. It has become cool before I knew it. A holiday where I feel the calm signs of autumn. On a day like this, I feel like listening to Erik ...

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 ...

If you forgot to celebrate Erik Satie’s 150th birthday on May 17, he forgives you. Really, he does. What’s that, you speak of a legacy worth honoring? A sesquicentenary? One imagines the urbane French ...

If you’ve felt as though the past 16 months have given you a case of Groundhog Day, then attending this weekend’s 14-hour marathon performance of Erik Satie’s ‘Vexations’ may be just the reflective ...

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 ...

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 ...