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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Again, a few arbitrary rolled chords pull momentary focus from the rapt austerity and concentration prevailing in ‘Des pas sur la neige’. No 7’s turbulent west winds can be brutal in Say’s hands; his ...

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 ...

British pianist Rolf Hind is a nontraditional performer in London's Wigmore Hall. He plays three pieces by French impressionist composer Erik Satie — "Gnossiennes No 1," "Preludes flasques," and ...

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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 ...

French composer Erik Satie (1866—1925), a contemporary of Claude Debussy, was often scorned and, had it not been for his friend, Debussy would have been largely ignored as well by his generation.

Sometimes 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 pieces she plays in ...