Eric Satie

Made in 1893, and it one of the most contraversial compositions that developed in another musical direction. IT consists out of one topic and two other disharmonic additions to it. The theme lasts about a minute and a half and it is suppose to be done 840 times. Imagine that-Around 14 hours of disharmony.

http://www.af.lu.se/~fogwall/satie.html

He also had a fetish for umbrellas....I dare say Freud would have something to say about that.

Yes, he was mixed up in "the crisis" alleged to grip all the arts at the turn of the 20th century.

:P

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The theme lasts about a minute and a half and it is suppose to be done 840 times. Imagine that-Around 14 hours of disharmony.

Enough to make me wish to kill something.

Strange he may be, but I like his way of writing music :P

I love Erik Satie. His eccentricity is so endearing. He only had one romantic relationship (allegedly, it's hard to think that's possible), with Suzanne Valadon. A lot of his music is so dissonant and lacking in direction that it's virtually inaccessible (he can take experimentation too far, I mean writing a typewriter into a score is kind of mental), but it's all about picking out the sweetcorn from the scraggy if you know what I mean, coz it's really worth making an effort to sift through his stuff to find the genuinely beautiful pieces.

I relax by playing his piano pieces. My faves are Nocturne no.4 and the Gnossiennes (Gymnopedies as well but they're getting kind of cliched now).

I'm a little obssessed with him to tell you the truth. :)

He only ate white food you know.

"Of course it has shape! It has the shape of a pear!"