Erik Satie

Satie's music, in sound and aesthetics, was fundamentally different from the prevailing 19th-century German school that prized ideals of continuity and development. It is music as sound per se (Musique d'ameublement, i.e., "Furniture Music" or "Music for Furnishing", 1920). In Musiques intimes et secretes ("Intimate and Secret Music") and the famous "Vexations" (from Pages mystiques, 1892-1895), ...more