Satie: Gymnopédie No. 1

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Satie: Gymnopédie No. 1

Erik Satie published his Gymnopedie No. 1 in 1888, and although this famous series of three piano compositions “Trois Gymnopédies” was completed on April 2, 1888, the third movement was not presented to the public until 1895. The unusual title of the work derives from the French form gymnopaedia, an ancient Greek word for an annual festival at which young people danced naked or perhaps simply unarmed. These images in the works of French symbolist painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes may have been a source of inspiration for Satie.

Satie’s music was unusual for his time. His harmony is often characterized by unresolved chords, he sometimes dispensed with bar lines, and his melodies are generally simple, often reflecting his love of early church music.

Satie invented what he called “musique d’ameublement” – a kind of background music that should not be listened to consciously. The Gymnopédies are considered an important precursor of modern ambient music.

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Erik Satie:

  1. Gymnopédie No. 1

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All composers Franz Xaver Gruber Claudio Monteverdi Sofia Gubaidulina Efrem Zimbalist Alexi Machavariani Viktor Hodyashev Reinhold Glière Arvo Pärt Pavel Karmanov Nikolai Medtner Luigi Boccherini Vincenzo Bellini Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Alexander Lokshin Francesco Landini Ivan Naborshchikov Ilya Vyazov Luciano Berio Béla Bartók Mily Balakirev Adam Repa Alex Moiseev Alexander Scriabin Alexander Siloti Andrew Lloyd Webber Antônio Carlos Jobim Antonio Vivaldi Astor Piazzolla Brian Field Camille Saint-Saëns Carl Orff Charles Gounod Christina Grigoryants Christoph Willibald Gluck Claude Debussy Dave Brubeck Denis Shapovalov Edvard Grieg Erik Satie Ferruccio Busoni César Franck Franz Liszt Franz Schubert Frédéric Chopin Fritz Kreisler Gabriel Fauré George Gershwin George Shearing Alexander Glazunov Enrique Granados Gustav Mahler George Frideric Handel Hasselmans Joseph Haydn Henry Mancini Husayn Ruhe aka the Puge Jacob Gade James M. David Karl Jenkins Johann Sebastian Bach Johannes Brahms Jules Massenet Friedrich Kalkbrenner Konstantin Soukhovetski György Kurtág Leonardo Le San György Ligeti Louis Spohr Donato Lovreglio Ludwig van Beethoven Anatoly Lyadov Manuel de Falla Matthew Hackett Maurice Ravel Mendelssohn Michel Legrand Mieczysław Weinberg Mikhail Glinka Modest Mussorgsky Mykola Leontovych Myroslav Skoryk Naborshchikov Pablo de Sarasate Philip Glass Polina Nazaykinskaya Sergei Prokofiev Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Jean-Philippe Rameau Remo Giazotto Rimsky-Korsakov Robert Schumann Joaquín Rodrigo Gioachino Rossini Alexander Rozenblatt Juan Sánchez Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergey Bryukhno Sergey Taneyev Dmitri Shostakovich Jean Sibelius