Erik Satie

Erik Satie’s Furniture Music reveals ideas that had preoccupied him since he started writing, although in this instance he reoriented them towards a functional purpose.
In the early 1890s he was fascinated by the harmonious serenity of the frescoes of puvis de Chavannes, which gave him the idea to compose “decorative music”. He did not
have anything ornamental in mind so much as the notion of a sound environment that would unite the composer, performer, and listener in an ideal symbiosis.