Throughout the history of music there has always been the contrapuntal struggle between convention and innovation. In the end, the true innovators make their mark and change the structure of music forever. Erik Satie, the great twentieth-century French composer, was just such an innovator.
Even though he was associated with the avant-garde artistic movements of early twentieth century Paris -- Cubism, Surrealism, Dadaism, and Neo-Classicism...