Satie: 3 Gymnopédies, 6 Gnossiennes (Solo Piano)

Subscribe to our channel: Listen to our playlist “Peaceful Piano” on Spotify: Like us on Facebook: SATIE – 3 GYMNOPEDIES, 6 GNOSSIENNES Piano: Carlo Balzaretti 🎵 BUY “3 Gymnopédies, 6 Gnossiennes“ from our music store: Trois Gymnopédies: No. 1, Lent et doloreux 00:00 Trois Gymnopédies: No. 2, Lent et triste 02:47 Trois Gymnopédies: No. 3, Lent et grave 05:02 6 Gnossiennes: No. 1, Lent 07:09 6 Gnossiennes: No. 2, Avec etonnement 10:17 6 Gnossiennes: No. 3, Lent 11:54 6 Gnossiennes: No. 4, Lent 14:14 6 Gnossiennes: No. 5, Modéré 16:22 6 Gnossiennes: No. 6, Avec conviction et avec une tristesse rigoureuse 18:46 Petite Ouverture à Danser 20:24 Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th-century Parisian avant-garde. His work was a precursor to later artistic movements such as minimalism, Surrealism, repetitive music, and the Theatre of the Absurd. An eccentric, Satie was introduced as a “gymnopedist“ in 1887, shortly before writing his most famous compositions, the Gymnopédies. The Gymnopédies are the first compositions with which Erik Satie tried to cut himself loose from the conventional 19th century “salon music“ environment. The melodies of the pieces use deliberate, but mild, dissonances against the harmony, producing a piquant, melancholy effect that matches the performance instructions, which are to play each piece “painfully“ (douloureux), “sadly“ (triste), or “gravely“ (grave). The Gnossiennes were composed by Satie in the decade following the composition of the Trois Gymnopédies (1888). Like them, the Gnossiennes are often considered dances. The musical vocabulary of the Gnossiennes is a continuation of that of the Gymnopédies (a development that had started with the 1886 Ogives and the Sarabandes) later leading to more harmonic experimentation Thank you so much for watching this video by Halidon Music channel, we hope you enjoyed it! Don’t forget to share it and subscribe to our channel All the best classical music ever on Halidon Music Youtube Channel: The very best of Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Schubert, Handel, Liszt, Haydn, Strauss, Verdi, Brahms, Wagner, Mahler, Rossini, Ravel, Grieg, Ravel, Dvorák… #satie #gymnopedie #gnossienne All rights reserved