Hi! one of my favourite composers is the french Erik Satie, who was active in the late XIX and beginning of XX century. My friend describes it as "Modern". its mainly piano, dreamy melodies. I'm quite unable to decribe with words the feelings that goes through these compositions. the man himself was somewhat of a character. once started his own church of wich he was the only fidel, and lived poorly despite the priceless legs he gave to music. if you don't know him, try out the Gymnopedies, or the wonderful Gnossiennes there is pretty affordable cds with pretty much all his works on ^^ and say what you think, if you know his music!
is funny you should mention that - there was a piece that i'd been hearing snippets of that i rembered my sister practising when i was a kid - then i got this job at a hotel overlooking a large lake - one morning i was looking out at the lake when this music started playing on the speakers - i instantly recognised it and rushed to the managers office where the system is - luckily for me - it had an lcd - that said now playing.gnosiennes erik satie - so by chance the other day i was rummaging around in the only charity shop round here - and found it on a cd.so thats another little piece of the jigsaw found - I think it's absolutely beautiful - haunting. i recently got to the bottom of another mystery piece of music and i ended up contacting a film director to find out what it was - you might like it too - it's by carl orff and its from musica poetica - I haven't bought it yet - but there is a snippet of it on amazon that you can listen to by clicking (no.1) here.i love it's simplicity
I like Satie's music a lot. It's definitely modern - and actually, one of the few musical modernists I do like.
Ah, Satie. A very interesting composer. My dad listens to his music all the time, and i find it absolutley facinating. He was a bit of an oddball, i think. Didn't he write three dances for a mechanical monkey? It was in a play, called i think "The Trap of Baron Medusa". But i'm not sure if thats the correct translation, since it was written in French, and my knowlage of the language is very limited. I can say thankyou .
He also has a 28 hour piano piece called "Vexations". Let's see them put that on a "Relaxing Classical Music" compilation!
WOW!!! i just recently found out about erik satie!! i heard one of his pieces on the radio & i just had to call & find out who it was!! so far my favorites are gnossienne 1, 2, & 3. amazingly beautiful & haunting stuff!!!! glad to see he's getting some recognition!! --------------------------------------------------------------- Listen to Gnossienne No1 by Erik Satie : http://www.napster.com/player/tracks/16494489
I played Gnossienne No. 2 for a recital in my piano class. I had never actually heard it before, so I had a kinda odd interpretation; I played it very slowly and with lots of sustain. Figuring out his instructions was kinda hard...
I also enjoy playing his songs on the piano. they're so calm and relaxing to play. Don't know of much more than the Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes, Ogives, and Sarabandes though... those are the ones I have the piano sheets for... but I bet he wrote tons of excellent pieces.
a jazzy guy in his way , bringing some dissonance gently forward . he could love a well-mis-tuned piano ? yooz dooz tooz ?
Ah Satie, he levels my head like no one else. Has anyone heard about how he bought five velvet suits before his death and would wear one everyday until it was ruined and then move on to the next suit? Apparently he still had about two left when he died. Oh and what is everyone's thought on Claude Debussy's compositions for piano?
I love Satie. Debussy is great too. I remember when i was little my mom always played Debussy on the piano.
Haha, indeed Satie was an oddball. There are so many fun and weird stories about him - no one had ever visited his room for 27 years, for example, - that it was quite surprising for me to see him score only second in the list of the most eccentric composers
Oh I love Satie. Very inspiring, very soothing. His pieces are of peculiar, reduced beauty. It's quite funny how I explored him. I was watching some videos of Jim Morrison's poetry and - I really don't know why - one had Satie's Gymnopedie 1 as background music. And I was captured at once. If Nietzsche wouldn't have tought me that deifying is stupid and useless, I'd say Debussy was the god of piano music. What. A. Genius.
I like Satie a lot, it is dreamy as well as emotional and really very French to my ears. His style isn't easy to classify at all, which is really nice. In some ways his music is still very Romantic(-ish), but he was one of the main inspirers of Debussy and Ravel's Impressionism, AND also of the French Neoclassicism of composers like Milhaud and Poulenc. Because of the simpleness despite being really innovative (great combination btw) you could also say he was a kind of early early predecessor of minimalism, or maybe not even really classical at all!
