Safe at home this spring has not necessarily meant sane at home. One antidote is a mega-dose of Erik Satie. The French composer’s most beguiling and languidly becalming piano pieces, particularly the ...

Although scorned by the French music establishment, Erik Satie’s innovations can still be heard in minimalism, muzak and even Aphex Twin. Nick Shave on the maverick composer at 150 On 9 September 1963 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On the centenary of Erik Satie’s death, music critic Ian Penman wants to downplay the few garish facts people ...

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 ...

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 ...

The absurd titles of Erik Satie’s compositions would provoke howls of laughter at concerts in early 20th-century Paris. Some critics condemned Satie’s eccentricities — but a new book argues that 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 ...

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 ...

Pianist Scott Dunn delivers a 2012 performance of Satie's "Vexations" at the Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Safe at home this spring has not ...