Erik Satie

Composer and pianist, 1866 - 1925

In Satie's one bedroom apartment, after his death, they found twelve identical grey velvet suits, a collection of over one hundred umbrellas, and two pianos, one strapped on top of the other. His composition Vexations is only three and a half minutes long, but under his notated instructions performers are to play the piece 840 times in succession!

To find out a bit more about Satie I suggest you start on the internet. You could try:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Satie

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

http://www.jazclass.aust.com/satie.htm

Alternatively, give these books a go:

Erik Satie (Critical Lives) by Mary E. Davis

A Mammal's Notebook: Collected Writings of Erik Satie by Erik Satie