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Erik Satie - Gnossiennes

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1.	Gnossienne I 04:06	info	buy track
2.	Gnossienne II 03:10	info	buy track
3.	Gnossienne III 03:13	info	buy track
4.	Gnossienne IV 03:36	info	buy track
5.	Gnossienne V 03:29	info	buy track
6.	Gnossienne VI 02:02	info	buy track
7.	Gnossienne VII 05:04	info	buy track

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Satie invented the word ‘gnossienne’ as a name for his new compositions, with no bar lines nor time signatures, indicating that the performer should take a fluid approach on time and rhythm. The name is probably a reference to Knossos, a big archeological site in Crete, discovered and excavated during Satie’s lifetime.

The first three pieces were published in 1893, as a unified set called Trois Gnossiennes, just like the Trois Gymnopédies from a few years earlier. The fourth to sixth, however, are posthumous findings and were not intended to be kept together as part of a single set, nor they were called ‘gnossiennes’ by Satie himself. They sound very different from each other – the fourth being dark and melancholic, while the fifth brighter and the sixth full of eyebrows and gloomy sarcasm. As for the seventh – this one called a ‘gnossienne’ by Satie himself –, it was part of a broader set of incidental music for Péladan's play 'Le Fils des Étoiles', labelled as “decorative music” for the first act – and to me it sounds like Satie was parodying himself.

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released July 14, 2021

Composer: Erik Satie
Performance: L. Sierakowski
Cover art: The Colosseum in Rome by Joseph August Knip

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My name is L. Sierakowski. I'm a pianist composer and a big fan of Erik Satie's music. Here you'll be able to listen to all of that.

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