Erik Satie, an incredible French composer, an extraordinary figure whose work defies categorisation. Satie is recognised for beautiful impressionist music. The founder of modernism. Strongly influenced the direction of 20th-century classical music. Satie invented what he called Musique d’ameublement or furniture music – a kind of background not to be listened to consciously. “I have never written a note I didn’t mean. Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied just by myself.”
