How to play Erik Satie | Gymnopédie No.1 [Complete Tutorial]

Here is a complete tutorial on how to play Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1. In this piano tutorial, I explain how to approach, practice and design this beautiful piece by Satie. Everything is explained with the pictures and the sheet music shown on the screen. You can download the sheet music for free, where I also wrote down the fingerings. The Gymnopédies, published in Paris starting in 1888, are three piano compositions written by French composer and pianist Erik Satie. He claimed that they were inspired by reading Gustave Flaubert’s novel ’Saiammbô’. They were the first compositions with which Satie tried to cut himself loose from the conventional 19th-century salon music environment of his father and stepmother. Satie, who was in his early twenties at the time, had just moved from his father’s residence to lodgings in Montmartre and had already started an enduring friendship with the romantic poet Patrice Contamine. When Gymnopédie No. 1 was published in August 1888, it was accompanied by a verse written