Erik Satie

France, 1887–1925

French composer working in Montmartre. The Gymnopedies are built on static, unhurried harmony, and his musique d'ameublement, or furniture music, proposed music intended as background rather than as a focus of attention.

MusicRoots documents 0 artists who influenced Erik Satie and 4 artists Erik Satie influenced in turn. Every connection cites a published source.

Which artists did Erik Satie influence?

• Darius Milhaud — Satie, with Cocteau, was the guiding mentor of Les Six — the anti-Romantic, anti-impressionist aesthetic of clarity and wit that shaped Milhaud's whole outlook.
• Maurice Ravel — Ravel was among the first, with Debussy, to recognise Satie's originality — Satie's constant experiments in musical form were a direct inspiration.
• Harold Budd — Budd named Satie's stillness a lifelong touchstone — the Gymnopédies' unhurried beauty is the declared ancestor of his soft-pedal universe.
• Brian Eno — Eno's ambient manifesto descends from Satie's furniture music — music 'as ignorable as it is interesting', Satie's idea restated for the studio age.