Although his name was associated with fashionable artistic movements of early twentieth-century Paris -- Cubism, Surrealism, Dadaism, and Neoclassicism -- Erik Satie followed his own light, never belonging to any group or adopting a particular doctrine. A true nonconformist, he struck out on his own path to develop a musical structure reflecting his unique personality and eccentricities, anticipating artistic tendencies that others shaped into...