Erik Satie: Prepare yourself …

Although scorned by the French music establishment, Erik Satie’s innovations can still be heard in minimalism, muzak and even Aphex Twin. Nick Shave on the maverick composer at 150On 9 September 1963, 70 years after it was written, Erik Satie’s Vexations was given its world premiere before a gathering of off-Broadway actors and artists at the Pocket theatre in Manhattan. The work is no more than half a page long, and yet the composer indicates that its curiously angular motif â€...

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