What nationality was the composer who coined the term Furniture Music ?
Furniture music Furniture music, or in French musique d’ameublement (sometimes more literally translated as "furnishing" music), is background music originally played by live performers. The term was coined by Erik Satie in 1917.
Léonard Gautier Jean Léonard Louis Anton Gautier (12 July 1866 – 27 October 1955) was a German-born French composer famous for his simple eighth-note melody piano piece called "Le Secret" which at one time appeared in all of the popular piano anthologies and still continues appearing in current famous piano collection pieces such as "The Piano Bench of Classical Music".