Erik Satie was a French composer and pianist ... The title of this collection of three piano pieces translates to “true flabby preludes for a dog”. This was his second volume of music for a dog, after ...

Without the burden of straightforward biographical inventory, this inventive work of criticism sheds new light on the composer’s life ...

Superstar pianist Igor Levit became the first musician to perform Erik Satie’s infamous Vexations solo. It took a lot out of ...

From one page of sheet music, Russian-German pianist Igor Levit will create a near day-long event. In his upcoming ...

Erik Satie's Vexations is a single ... and other aspects of his piano writing foreshadowed American-style minimalism and ambient music that takes us from Arvo Pärt’s Für Alina in 1976 to ...

The extreme simplicity of many of Satie’s pieces ... the world record holder for the longest duration of any piece of music, his Vexations, played in New York in 1963, a 180-note piano piece with ...

In Erik Satie ... Satie’s life was full of contradictions. His compositions are “old as sand yet strangely contemporary”, shifting between high culture and popular music, not fully belonging ...

Written by Erik Satie in 1893, Vexations" is described as "one of classical music's most simple ... including Beethoven's complete piano sonatas and concertos by Brahms. Levit told British ...