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  "name": "Erik Satie",
  "description": "Erik Satie appears 3 times in our Impressionism list, placing as high as No. 2. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-30",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/erik-satie/",
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  "years": {
    "first": 1888,
    "last": 1917
  },
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  },
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      "trackKey": "erik-satie--musique-dameublement",
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      "title": "Musique d'ameublement",
      "year": 1917,
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      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Furniture music, written to be ignored, and Satie ran around the interval shouting at the audience to keep talking. Eno's ambient manifesto is essentially a restatement of this joke, taken seriously.",
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        },
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      "trackKey": "erik-satie--vexations",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/erik-satie--vexations/",
      "title": "Vexations",
      "year": 1893,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "A page of music with an instruction to play it 840 times. The first minimalist piece by six decades, and the first to understand that duration is itself the material.",
      "alsoOn": [],
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        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Erik%20Satie%20Vexations",
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        },
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    },
    {
      "trackKey": "erik-satie--gymnopedie-no-1",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/erik-satie--gymnopedie-no-1/",
      "title": "Gymnopédie No. 1",
      "year": 1888,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Three chords rocking gently and a tune that refuses to arrive anywhere. Too familiar to hear properly, and still the template for every piece of music designed to occupy a room quietly.",
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}