HE LIVED FOR HIS ART AND DIED AN ALCOHOLIC, to me his music will never die, his piano miniatures are the most sampled in all walks of modern music, although most people will know him best for "GYMNOPEDIES" in paris in 1917 it was almost imposible to buy an umbrella as fast as they were manufactured ERIC SATIE would buy them up, he had hundreds of the things almost completely filling his house, satie's lunatic ballet parade certainly confirmed the notion that he was two gymnopdies short of a trio, when he included in his orchestra the likes of typewriters, aeroplane engines, hand guns, factory items, live chickens and lawn mowers; i find that sort of thing very attractive in a composer. I LOVE HIS ART . MAY IT CONTINUE, anyone out there who does still play his music? rgards to ERIC SATIE (1866-1925)