Musicology Annotation << Back Erik Satie in America: from the Сage to the minimalists Anna E. Krom The article is devoted to the reception of creativity of Eric Satie of American composers, experimentalists the middle and second half of the twentieth century. Revaluation of heritage Satie is related to the activities of John Сage, who had formed a relationship with the French musician as a genius visionary, anticipating important discoveries of the twentieth century (including «fi gurative» notation, static composition, repetitive technique, the concept of applied music and other ideas). The article traces the peculiarities of perception and interpretation of key works of Satie in the USA, and discusses musical aesthetic parallels between his writings and compositions of American minimalism and postminimalism. Satie and the minimalists bring together the experimental nature of creativity, interest to the East and jazz, the simplicity of musical language, modality, reference to quantitative rhythmic, repetitive principles of organization of texture, work in the fi eld of fi lm music. Keywords: Satie, minimalism, Сage, repetitive technique, quantitative rhythm, static composition, fi lm music. Contacts: E-mail: yannakrom@yandex.ru Pp. 24-32.