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Erik Satie | History's Weirdest and Most Eccentric Musician

Erik Satie was a French composer and pianist, born on May 17th, 1866 and by all accounts, he was thought of as a talentless musician in his formative years. At least that’s how Georges Mathias, his professor of piano at the Paris Conservatoire described h

Émile Decombes, another one of Satie’s piano professors called him "the laziest student in the Conservatoire."


It’s true, Satie wasn’t much of an accomplished piano player - he was a horrible sight reader - but he was a master composer.


His compositions have been featured on everything from The Simpsons and How I Met Your Mother to The Royal Tenenbaums, Dr. Who and The Benny Hill Show, not to mention hundreds of commercials.

Erik Satie
1866 - 1925