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 ...

Lovers of Erik Satie’s exquisite piano music would baulk at the mere suggestion that his later pieces are just mood-setting background music. In fact, it was he that inferred this by describing some ...

Nu je boek uit is, vroeg de hoofdredacteur na de presentatie (grandioos succes), ga je dan nog wel door met de rubriek? De belangrijkste en bekendste componisten zullen immers inmiddels wel behandeld ...

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 ...