Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death

Satie's Gymnopedies have been on our household's "calming & focused" playlists for years now. Highly recommend, and I look forward to hearing these new works, too.

Did you perchance find these originally on youtube? They're very popular on their autosuggestions.

They’re hugely famous, I don’t think most people’s first encounter with them would be as YouTube suggestions

I think you’re overestimating how much people listen to music from 100 years ago. Youtube is probably hugely responsible for Erik’s modern popularity.

I can assure you that Satie’s music was very, very well-known and popular (even though most people wouldn’t recognise his name) long before YouTube existed.

Most people don’t intentionally listen to 100-year-old music, sure, but you’re underestimating how much we absorb this stuff as background music in ads, movies, TV shows etc.

Most classical music is very niche but a few pieces become cornerstones of popular culture -- think of “flight of the bumblebee” or the William Tell overture. Satie has a disproportionate number of hits. His style is exceptionally simple, distinct and timeless.