Erik Satie "Trois Gymnopédies"

[abink10]

Sitting in a covered porch

Rain falling gently, softly

Peace fills the air

Pitter, patter, pitter, patter

The Soft Rain falls

In an endless dream of Solitude

[omgJellyFish]

This song goes really well with rain

rainymood(dot)com/

feels like a nice song to hear on a rainy day right?

[elstroshitnonstop]

there is no way this is furniture music. I cant see in my mind any way that i could talk over this, i cant even think of anything when that melody plays. so beautiful, i wonder if bill evans ever expanded on this

[elstroshitnonstop]

this isnt furniture music, there is no way in my mind that i could talk while that melody is playing, i cant actually think when i hear it. its so beautiful

[georgelstein]

stunningly beautiful music after 120+ years

[amusicianinparis]

Ideal music to heal a broken heart, relax the body, resfresh the mind and lift the spirit.

[2207paris]

that reminds of everything i have lived.i dont know how..i can explain what i feel.

[custic88]

Caida libre desde el cielo hacia el fondo de los sueños en mi mente

[spiritartist100]

what a god this man was

[vonteflon]

I'll be honest, I think he should have called it a day once he'd finished the first one. #1 is beautiful, the other two - in my humble opinon - are dull and boring.

[katlinc64]

Beauteous. I am officially in love with Erik Satie! (:

[Herve1955]

Écouter les Gymnopédies est un apaisement pour l'âme et pour le coeur. Une invitation à la réflexion et à la rêverie. Elles ouvrent nos yeux sur un monde idéal, celui de la beauté et de l'émotion.

[SuperPeach10000]

erinnert mich ein bisschen an animal crossing :O

[SuperPeach10000]

sehr schöne musik <3

[danrouen76]

magnifiques instants d'apesanteur

[granada488]

@danrouen76 je n'aurais pas pu mieux le dire

[DazedSpy2]

picard!

[shakdude1]

Thumbs up if your name is Erik!

[unknowabletao]

After the void,when the world was black and white and the human mind saw more shades of grey than there are colors today, imagination and creativity flourished. Now we see imitation and constant repitition. Yet still from some corners come heartsongs for the so few who are listening. One of those wellsprings is Eric Satie and this melody.

[edisoneras2]

@unknowabletao Well I think it is because the more obvious creations have already been created, the mind isn't to be blamed since they are as good as they were 1000 years ago.

[espoir72]

@unknowabletao you talked so nicely... 

[MrDoobie28]

@JANISTAR07

This is timeless, ethereal,from another dimension music.Somebody could have composed it a few minutes ago.

Its brilliance lies in its supposed simplicity

I like your comment about Satie 'surely his coeur overflowed with love but at the same time he was very sad'.

a l'Aquitaine xx

[espoir72]

@MrDoobie28 but most beautiful things are characterized by simplicity and the French have this. It's also the same with ancient Greek culture. Especially dorian style

[iggiban87]

I don't understand how some people after hearing this can keep calling Lady Gaga, Kanye, Justin Bieber or any other popular singer in the medias right now, an artist. Just don't get it.

[ichbinned2]

@iggiban87 dude you're so right erik satie is timeless i mean im 18 and i love this

[DIBEovSvarteHelvete]

@iggiban87 Hey dude music is a subjective concept. It depends from the habits in life, from the moods and obviously from the tastes of everyone. Always there will be artists the keep doing music from the heart and others that don't care about this... but there won't be an unique truth about the music, the songs and the artists because IMHO it's important to have a mind wide open to appreciate every side of the music, every kind of this universal message, free from every concrete rule!

[Saint7781]

@iggiban87

If you don't get it, your IQ must be very low.

[nonserviam23]

Depression hurts. Cymbalta can help.

[JANISTAR07]

I learnt playing piano because of this great song!

[JANISTAR07]

Listening to Erik Satie all can I feel is what he was thinking at that right moment when he composed "Trois Gymnopédies" surely his heart overflowed with love but at same time i think he was so sad...

[selinbinay94]

♥♥♥

frisson

[Starwheel6]

Musical resonance is unlimited.

One's capacity corresponds with various levels

of feeling beyond and including happy or sad.

I feel Satie feeling an open spaciousness of curiosity.

[WaterCow12]

Do these have a sad or happy theme to it. I cannot decide ;_;

[ChubbyPom]

I'm very fond of Erik Satie to say the least :]

[Lizy3110]

beautiful piece of art ♥

[MrMusicDK]

wow...

[fluffheadish]

this song reminds of the first girl i fell in love with...

[funnyguyagency]

learnt all the notes;

clueless to how to play song

[andmaketherain]

Phonometrician...

[Assa2407]

I wonder what Satie would say when he could read that his music touches so many people in their hearts

[mugovo]

ich kann das auf einem Klavier spielen, aber nur gaaaanz Laaangs a aa aaaa aaaaa m! Tolle Komposition, Entspannung pur!

[donskut4]

this masterpiece is the only thing that make me want to learn piano, i can't decribe how much i love it. someday i will,

[MrGriser]

@donskut4 I can play this on the piano :D

[donskut4]

@MrGriser well, you are killing me :D

[MrGriser]

@donskut4 How am I killing you?

[donskut4]

@MrGriser haha, nvm

[daiches99]

@donskut4 Go for it!

I learned how to play No. 1 again recently. You will really not regret it!

Good luck!

[MemorialAddress63]

I enjoy how slowly this version is played; it sounds like the pianist caresses each note.

[jaguartfg]

There is an other contemporary composer who made a Satie's variations, if some one knows about it pls. send me this info. Thanks. Jaguar TFG

[marvy1118]

Too fucking slow. Why, why, why do so many people play Satie soooooo slowly. It loses something.

[MrRougeace]

reminded me of l C418's minecraft music

[RealEros1]

Excuse me, can anyone name some pianist who sound similar to Erik Satie? Thank you.

[MegaKalypto]

@RealEros1 you mean composers, take a look at Wikipedia on "Dada".. Music

[RealEros1]

@MegaKalypto Yes composers. Would you be willing to name any?

[zardozmania]

Not furniture music at all....these pieces have a dimension of soul to them...a bit abstract, and touching into gray areas that invoke various emotions....for me at least.

[cesetar66]

@zardozmania I agree 200%... what is this "furniture music" description? My perception is totally different, romantic, innovative, weird, complex, I feel like flying when I hear this, flying over fields, flying over Paris, flying over the water, or a clear mist nice morning somewhere, or anything you want, a million different emotions... not furniture music.. at least for me Tx Zardozmania

[aeroforce1ist]

@cesetar66 it actually is satie's modesty if you ask me.

[joyella93]

@zardozmania  I totally agree...

[jonnykelly1]

What a tune! A song of reflection.

[Stoecker03]

Minecraft

[beefylemon]

Ahhhh i love this song. Starting to learn it on the piano myself :D

[18girl1969]

This song makes me miss everything I have ever loved.

[Dunderhead36]

@18girl1969 it's strange how I keep thinking he wrote these after Valadon left him, because it just seems so fitting.

[IIzRAPTORzII]

@18girl1969 I believe there are 9001 songs here, this is because the narwhal bacons at midnight. Also, Ezio is coming for you.

P.S. I like smelling fresh mangos.

[Magestrix]

A radiant yet emotively flowing piece. It quiets you down and lulls you to listen as it twinkles around your senses.

[Dunderhead36]

Only discovered this masterpiece a couple hours ago...Already got my piano teacher to assign it to me...

[blindmong]

Perfect...

[silkyorganza]

I love Erik Satie, his talent was immense and his life somewhat tragic In The Painted Veil ( beautiful movie) his music just grabs at your heart.

[SeaReut]

test

[nonijuicing]

So very tender. So lovely~

[spiritk9]

... Smile... Smile.. :3

[reanna0409]

Beautiful. Just Beautiful.

Erik Satie is a matermind.

[ambientpiano]

one of my all time favourites in piano music. thanks for posting!

[aserda]

6 people are too happy to understand these masterpieces.

[theeighthsea]

I regret quitting the piano...

[DeniseInChains]

@theeighthsea this is a great reason to start again.. :)

[wenglishsal]

Oh my goodness, so beautiful, tranquil and moving.. this and the other tow versions make we cry, they are simply wonderful... *watery sniff*

Many, many thanks @rovingeye2, for posting these exquisite works by Satie...

My very best regards to all the Gymnopedie fans in the world .. :0)X

[image2frame]

31lucian, I don't know if this was used in "Monk" I searched imdb on their soundtrack search for "Satie" and his work shows up in many soundtracks, but not Monk. Doesn't prove it's not in the soundtrack, as imdb isn't always all inclusive on listing credits. These are great pieces, I like Satie's furniture.

[WolfenNights]

I came here from Mother 3, Leder's Gymnopedie.

I feel like crying.

[31lucian]

Does anyone know if this song was ever used for the show "Monk"? It sounds like it might have.

[Fallen420chan]

Lovely... just lovely!

[peachmelba16]

Haunting.

[JasonMarshMusic]

What's brilliant about this piece is that it's not exactly any one thing mood wise; it's kind of somber, kind of happy, but not really either one, which to me suggest that it comes from a place of real personal depth.

[XxLoViiExX]

i just got chills listening to this

[FrankW69]

Perfect music for the coming of autumn. Part I especially, reminds me of kicking through fallen leaves in the woods on a sunny October afternoon....

[puppamilcazzo123]

love, life. maybe it exists 

[whatageeza]

Such a beautiful piece of music.

[AuddBal]

Does anyone know what inspired Satie in this piece? Very curious.

[Malzzel]

I've always found these three pieces... Regretful. There's a lot of sadness involved with this, which include people and social relations.

[4stardust2]

his piano compositions touched me

[Flailwielder]

I wonder what this would sound like if the higher notes were played on the violin while the bass notes are played on piano

[FreestylesoccerSD]

At parties I like electro, dubstep and such music, but when I'm alone, I can really enjoy this as well because it has so much emotion

[aserda]

6 people are deaf.



[Yankeeprideful]

It doesn't get any more beautiful than this composition, haunting and magnificent.

[457578064]

Why the people who hate this video wants hyperactive music like Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga or other artist.

The old music is better than new ones.Thats because of [TECHNOLOGY] might be the reason why some musics and artists sucks now a days. Not like from DJ Mangoo, Godsmack, System Of A Down and Seether, They are still cool.

[TheLadyjazzy1]

my dinner with Andre

[hirupe]

i have the feeling that they used this for the soundtrack of sakura card captor...

[tacle51]

des lassitudes magique qui ne lasseront jamais................

[ocarinaman2012]

How can one possibly dislike such good classical? Songs like this are the root of humanity and all life itself.

[cairozmahm]

@ocarinaman2012 I just told my husband how I remember this piece of music from childhood (I'm over 50). He doesn't get it but is glad that someone does. I finally heard this performed live at a country club seven years ago. A harpist indulged me. I was thrilled. What would this world be without music?

[ocarinaman2012]

@cairozmahm The world, in my opinion, is losing its musical quality. Today's music is not music to me, it is minorly controlled confusion. THIS is music. This is the Beginning. We must work to overcome and ignore Music today and look to the past for help.

[MageAtYou]

The beginning reminds me of Minecraft

[keany06]

Minecraft music! Thats where i recognise it from!

[viveLaCifte]

5 people are justin bieber listeners

[dirtymustardcake]

@viveLaCifte I understand your dislike towards that kid, but it would be nice if his name wasn't mentioned at all; especially with such a great song playing. People come to this side of YouTube to get a away things like that not be reminded of it.

[Viruw]

For those interested - the performer is actually Anne Queffelec (the best available IMHO).

[linfordjohn]

I heard this in the movie Corrina, Corrina when I was little. Years later I was sitting at the piano and started randomly playing a song I heard in my head. I didn't think I'd made it up, but I didn't know where it'd come from. It wasn't until my freshman year of college that I watched the movie again on Netflix and realized where the song had come from. I hadn't heard it since I was four or five, but it just stayed with me my whole life. Crazy and weird, but awesome.

[AkumaUchitoru]

@linfordjohn

Wow, that sounds pretty magical! :D

[EmbraceTheGoodLife]

I fell in love with this song the moment I heard it.

[manson219]

beautiful... never gets old.

[nshanb]

right click on video then Save as.. u get a stupid song

[spottydog4477]

~~I cant recall the last time I fell in Love with something until I heard this~~~

~~now,, i'm in love again~~~

~~~Sublime~~~

[atlcelloboi]

Feels just like this right now



[beens1111]

Envoûtant..... se blottir contre l'être aimé et s'endormir paisiblement.... <3

[MoChA36o]

(Q_Q) s So  Beautiful

[DarkDomnu]

found this from watching community and wondering what the piano part was in my dinner with andre :)

[Poonybug]

I've heard this all my life, and finally found out what it's called.

I'm learning it as soon as my mom has left for a few hours. She doesn't know I play piano. I want to keep it that way, because I don't want lessons.

[0liv3rP]

@Poonybug thats strange, my mum is my lessons...i dont read music but i get her to teach me stuff and i remember it

[burak9327]

@Poonybug

my mom doesnt let me for the piano. cuz there are lessons ın my lıfe

[arsenedevos]

@Poonybug

Haha, the same here, i'm 15 and I play guitar. I don't think you need lessons to play instruments. Only experience, that you expiriences your self and not by lessons, for the rest you play what you love to play on your instruments. When I bought my Guitar my mum sended me on guitar lessons, but I refused to go. :p

[yamiko193]

@arsenedevos But at the same time, lessons are a great way to connect to an instrument, because you're with someone who is very experienced with the respective instrument. I do voice, and I started taking lessons. After the very first time I walked out of my teacher's home, I had already improved so much! Try it!

[piedpiperpianos]

@Poonybug ( : > D

[Flatliner0452]

@Poonybug perhaps the strangest thing I have ever heard in my life.

[ericmsandoval]

@Poonybug my advise as a musician: take a lesson.

[Poonybug]

@ericmsandoval I've been a classical musician for 11 years on the Viola. I am about as experienced with every aspect of musicality as a kid my age can be. I've also taken piano lessons for a year, but I quit them 3 years ago.

Trust me, I don't need lessons. It's something I do to vent emotions, and taking lessons just cages my love for piano.

[flambedude]

@Poonybug As much as I wish it were possible, you really can't teach yourself (with much success, at least) music or how to play an instrument. Yes, lessons and practicing suck, but it certainly won't hurt and will indeed help you become better faster. Good luck.

[guanjon]

@flambedude Lessons help you keep practising regularly, but you can definitely teach yourself how to play any instrument with enough patience.

[GtoTheUITAR]

@flambedude I aught myself how to play guitar, and I play saxophone fluently and I am now teaching myself to play piano. Success comes to those who try. You must first begin in order to succeed. There are many people who have musical talent that have never had a lesson before.

[darkzzii]

At some point, the world wound up destroyed.

Naturally, it was human who destroyed it.

In the back of their minds, everyone had an

inkling that it would happen at some point.

And then it realy did happen.

And so, the world is no more.

Before the end of the world a White Ship came to these islands.... ...

[crapadotol]

@darkzzii On it were all the people of Tazmily Village.

Yes. Aboard the White Ship were those few who

had managed to escape the "world".

The people on the ship still went by their names from the previous world.

This "White Ship" plan had been set in place before the world was destroyed.

And, although they're part of the world, these Nowhere Islands are a special place.

They were the one place that would remain

even if the world was lost.

The one and only place where people could servive

[IPREFERTHEMOOSE]

@darkzzii I love earthbound <3

[bawbremy]

This music is emperical proof of God; haunting serenity; repetative simplicity, engaging ones soul in delightful, thought provoking, hopeful anticipation.

[StephanSmithFX]

The man who composed this must have been a quiet, peaceful man. He certainly looks happy in the picture.

Most miss that the simple things in life are sometimes the most moving and most powerful.

[jeanpi314159]

@StephanSmithFX

he was a very original man , not exactly peaceful ! He was very poor . I live in the town (Arcueil) he has been liived , this is a popular town , just near from Paris .

he had a strong sense of humour ( his music is plenty of that ) ; he wrote many funny sentences about thnigs ) and a lot of umbrellas ! (which you cannot see in his music , can you ?)

He was the most antiacademic man you can see ...

[cairozmahm]

@jeanpi314159 Merci pour votre mots!

[marvy1118]

too slow

[dios696]

@marvy1118 it´s part of the expression

[TheMilagros59]

wonder

[Standard420247]

How could someone dislike this, it makes no sense.

[elephantOFcrime]

3 of the most beautiful pieces evr composed, big fan of Satie !!

[theallmightylemon]

steve hackett x genisis used this in small form in his album 'please dont touch'...

[johnnieff]

i think he must be a sad man with a sad and peaceful life,i dun know why.....

[OphelieSing]

Free replay button ----> 00:00

[murphslaw123]

What a release.

[paulostroff99]

Some of the most beautiful music ever composed. TY rovingeye2 for posting.

[bloubalie]

It's just one beautiful magic music. The music us emport. This just beautiful, one art music. (excuse me for the error, im french)

[LoganSolus]

@bloubalie Pourrais tu l'écrire en français? J'ai l'impression que ce que tu essaies de dire est beau, mais... Je ne le saisis pas.

And for you who don't understand french, what I just wrote translates to "Could you write it in french? I'm under the impression that what you're trying to say is beautiful, but I can't grasp it"

[BelaFleckPhan]

Takes real skill to play with your minds metronome instead of a real one

[achim56nrw]

gäääähn...

[sarakarma]

is it just me or is there someone breathing or inhaling at 4:39 ~ 4:41 e_e

[jopojopo1]

@sarakarma woooaaaa! creepy! how did you catch that?

[sarakarma]

@jopojopo1 i love piano songs, so i listen carefully to them e_e

and yes its pretty creepy xD

[TheMusicBuilding]

4nd round! :)

[treavioli]

beautiful. i feel light. i also feel like tip-toe dancing in my underwear.

[Kynnar]

Magnificent piece!.. :)

[internetloevmachine]

@hemmerch

You are, you defeatist cretin!

Stop bringing us down and compose something!

[llbrunoll1]

Chaves

[LucyeCorne]

Ces muisique sont magnifique

-Moi je sais jouer Gymnopedie No.1 !

[mmbmbmbmb]

This is the one piece of music I can hear anywhere at any time. It just blends in with any mood I am in - whatever, whenever ;o)

Grandiose in it's simplicity! A masterpiece indeed!

Excellent rendition as well! Thanks a lot!

[MrDoobie28]

Well, I have had it in my collection for years. You will find 'Trois Gymnopedies' on any Erik Satie compilation.

[MrDoobie28]

It is on 'The Music of Erik Satie' CD by Joanna Macgregor. It is actually in 3 parts-three being trois in French. Sure you will find it on any CD collection of Satie's music.

This talk of France is making my mind wander to Aquitaine which could be----

[jaugello12]

@MrDoobie28 According to Amazon that album isn't coming out until June, 2011.

[jaugello12]

I have never heard anything like this in my life. Does anyone know where I could find the specific album of his that has this song?

[nandykins]

Heard this for the first time in The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya.

It was so beautiful that I learned to play it by heart on the piano even though I've never played the piano before in my life.

[animeukefan]

@nandykins I heard Gymnopedies in The Disappearence of Haruhi Suzumiya too! >w<

I was listening to the radio when I heard this wonderful song again. I just had to find it again

[WowPlayerolol]

@animeukefan muhaha, me too ;P

[jesikasmile23]

i dont know why but this song remindes me about kingdom hearts

[kristasaurus72]

@jesikasmile23 i think it's in the flashbacks of them on destiny island.

[MrDoobie28]

Great musical masterpieces are timeless.

This could have been composed an hour ago or yesterday.

Erik Satie was French and j'adore his music--somebody else lives in France now et j'adore cetter femme aussi

still tinkin' bout ya, luv xx