Erik ___ , French composer, who wrote five pieces he called 'furniture music', d. 1925 (5)
I believe the answer is:
satie
(Other definitions for satie that I've seen before include "posed by yours truly close to stage" , "Erik -, nineteenth to twentieth century French composer" , "French composer of the Gymnopedies, d. 1925" , "creative Frenchman" , "Erik -----, French early minimalist composer" .)