Satie's GnossiennesSometimes 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 ...

This is starting to look like the year of Erik Satie. How else could there be two magnificent albums dedicated to his music? The first was Dan Willis and Velvet Gentlemen's The Satie Project (Daywood ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, International Conference on Psychology and the Arts (Spring, 1985), pp. 299-328 (30 pages) Timing data from piano performances of ...

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 ...

Valadon posed for Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec before being mentored in her early painting career by Degas, who recognised her as ‘one of us’.

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 ...