{"id":47000,"date":"2024-08-28T13:15:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T11:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/40916232-fa19-4e76-b809-795361fa8d11"},"modified":"2024-08-28T14:07:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T12:07:14","slug":"his-music-could-have-come-from-another-planet-how-french-composer-erik-satie-liberated-music","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/his-music-could-have-come-from-another-planet-how-french-composer-erik-satie-liberated-music\/","title":{"rendered":"‘His music could have come from another planet’: how French composer Erik Satie liberated music"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published: Wednesday, 28 August 2024 at 11:15 AM<\/p>

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The day I visited Erik Satie<\/a>\u2019<\/strong>s grave in Arcueil, the southern suburb of Paris where he lived and died in 1925 \u2013 as a \u2018great musician, person of heart, and exceptional citizen\u2019, as the epitaph says \u2013 there was a single ripe pear placed on top of the austere plinth. Which makes surreal sense, because among Satie\u2019s piano works are his Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear<\/i>.<\/p>