Pascal Rogé Erik Satie "Gnossienne No. 4" (1891)

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Alfred Éric Leslie Satie (Honfleur, 17 May 1866 Paris, 1 July 1925) was a French composer and pianist. Starting with his first composition in 1884, he signed his name as Erik Satie.

Satie was introduced as a "gymnopedist" in 1887, shortly before writing his most famous compositions, the Gymnopédies. Later, he also referred to himself as a "phonometrograph" or "phonometrician" (meaning "someone who measures (and writes down) sounds") preferring this designation to that of "musician," after having been called "a clumsy but subtle technician" in a book on contemporary French composers published in 1911.

In addition to his body of music, Satie also left a remarkable set of writings, having contributed work for a range of publications, from the dadaist 391 to the American Vanity Fair. Although in later life he prided himself on always publishing his work under his own name, in the late nineteenth century he appears to have used pseudonyms such as Virginie Lebeau and François de Paule in some of his published writings.

Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde. He was a precursor to later artistic movements such as minimalism, repetitive music, and the Theatre of the Absurd.

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[rr7firefly1]

It's terribly sad that in today's world it is hardly possible to experience the type of quiet serenity that this music evokes. I'm not sure that we have evolved in any genuinely human sense in the past hundred years, except that most everyone is now enslaved by modern technology.

[mandolaman12]

Being There...

[jsphotos]

@gillesdemange If the man finds serenity in the music, so be it. Satie did. Yes, he was challeneged, and poor, but how you can claim any "true" interpretation of his music (or anyone else's for that matter) smacks of extreme hubris and paternalism. Just listen, and enjoy - and, let others do the same!

[gillesdemange]

@rr7firefly1 there is anything but serenity in this play man, you really do not know anything about satie and his life... it is so silly to talk about technology and other stuff in that case... so silly

[dustjohnny]

Heavenly music, thanks master!

[UnknownFromPluto]

Each note as a raindrop ...

[PatrioticGiraffe1]

cock of small origins.

[koenraad3]

the beginning reminds me of moonlight sonata, whereas moonlight sonata loses the ability to play the snares of your soul, gnossienne keeps it. satie is truly an phonometric artist.

[bbeck953]

@rr7firefly1 how is it then that I can appreciate something from every single genre on this earth and refuse to raise my nose at any other? Who can place one artform over another. snob alert. open your mind and accept that NOTHING is better or worse than anything else. I play Satie, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff on the keyboard.... just as soon as I'm done composing another techno melody. You CANNOT compare apples to oranges. End of argument.

[KEYSHOT1]

Imagination is magic.