Erik Satie - Gymnopédies & Gnossiennes

Listen on Spotify: Download this songs Download sheet music for piano 0:00 Gymnopédies: 1. Lent et douloureux 3:31 Gnossiennes: 1. Lent 6:52 Gnossiennes: 3. Lent 9:33 Gnossiennes: 4. Lent 11:52 Gnossiennes: 5. Modéré Alfred Eric 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&quo