I was on a bus trip a few years ago and we went to a recreated Pioneer Village that was decorated for Autumn/Halloween. I happened to walk past a dimly lit barn with candles in the window and music playing. The sound was haunting to me so I stood there listening. Suddenly, a figure dressed in muslin cloth with her face covered with a veil slowly approached the entrance and was swaying to this tune. I was mesmerized by this. I didn't know what was playing and it took me a while to find it on UA-cam. It was Gnossienne No. 1.
@Maester Auron without a shadow of a doubt, Reinbert de Leeuw's interpretation is the best one: ua-cam.com/video/5bIeYqpn0Gk/v-deo.html for the gnossiennes and ua-cam.com/video/nLQhYmesIR0/v-deo.html for some more.
Few people know the meaning of Gnossienne. This is the explanation I give when I teach them this song (my explanation). Gnose in French (from Greek gnosis) means knowledge ("connaissance", feminine noun) and "sienne", feminine adjective for "sien" means oneself. Gnossienne is the knowledge every one makes out for oneself. So it's an introspection on how you express yourself musically (but it works for language too) and how you should choose to express yourself. All the Satie's annotations on the score show this. They are really important and often not respected because few people understand them. "Très luisant" means "Show off" (what you probably do at the beginning when you play). "Questionnez": Question yourself about what you're doing. "Du bout de la pensée" refers to an achieved form of thinking. It's your thought just before speaking or playing and it's your natural thought coming from yourself. "Postulez en vous-même" : Think in yourself among several possibilities and postulate, make a decision. And finally "Sur la langue": on the tip of your tongue, what you are going to play, after a thorough thinking, but without being completely sure, because nobody can be sure of one's knowledge. Thank you Mr. Satie for this music and philosophy lesson !
merciii ! :) je n'aurais jamais pense a 'gnostic' :) greek 'gnosis' (german Gnostik, english gnostic) is the 'understanding' or 'recognition', the 'sa-voir' about (christian) mystics. So it can also be interpreted as 'find the devine/mystic in yourself' - very 'Satie' ;)
my favorite piece by satie. its just so, like, mysterious, with the placement of the notes, especially for me the b naturals placed over the f minor chords. wonderful, the slower tempo really makes it all around better. what a genius maniac satie was. the thing with this piece is that its quite repetitive, so its up to the performer to make it sound like it never repeats.
Well said. The difficulty of this piece lies not within its compositional complexity, rather in the performer’s ability to interpret the emotions of the piece in a wide enough capacity to captivate the audience completely.
I was listening to this song while i was cleaning my house. Sorry if it sounds dramatic, but it was such a strange feeling, that i immediately wanted to write a comment. A stressful and boring feeling. Doing something ordinary and normal, while inside, deep down in the heart, there this sadness and anxiety, mixed with gratitude and comfort. A real conflict. Grateful for what you have, and sad for what you can't do or have. Stuck in a loop, waiting for a miracle of fate, for a chance to change, to be better.
Bu şarkı bana çocukluğumu hatırlatıyor. Karne almaya çok yakın zamanda yapılan geziler, ilkbahar mevsimi, haftasonu televizyondan çizgi film açıp saatlerce izlemek, kuşların çıkardığı güzel sesler...Nasıl etkileyici bir sanat eseri ki, insanlara sözle anlatılamayacak duygular yaşatıyor.
this song feels like walking down a victorian london street in the rain on an autumn day with an overcast sky and light from shop windows reflecting in the puddles on the cobbled street
Yet to me, (a Londoner), it immediately sounds Parisian. I heard it once played as the backing for a TV commercial. I asked my music teacher what it was called and described it as reminding me of an empty Parisian street. I then played it to the best of my abilities and he recognised it. He was stunned that I had picked up on it's French origins, just from it's style.
I was very little when I first heard this piece. I remember feeling sadness, happines, bliss and some feeling else I still don’t know the name of. But _never_ despair. It just pulled my little heart’s strings. And it still does after 20 something years.
I remember a long time ago I went to a van goh exhibition and this song was playing. I wasn't into much of his work but soon remember listening to this as I walked through the various pieces. I think that was when I grew to really appreciate some of his works. I also started learning the piano because of this song. It was just a surreal experience I can't explain.
@@powder9569 I believe a beginner can learn this in no time flat with enough practice, once you recognize the pattern you’ll be able to figure out the entire song.
@@powder9569 I started Piano two weeks ago with zero musical experience, I learnt this in less than a week teaching myself, its very simple its essentially 3 parts across the entire piece. Although the expression is not there for me, I am still not there yet.
I felt the same. It sounds like Erik Satie is telling a journey where things happen (good or bad), but he made it seems like banality, or fatality. I kind of feel like he made me feel a lot of things by trying not to.
I love Satie. I had a piano teacher for 6-7 years and she died from cancer. She helped me alot, I was really sad. I didnt wanna see her go. One of Satie’s piece was played at her funeral. That was one of the saddest days. I said goodbye while crying a whole lake. Edit: im still sad till this day
This incredible piano piece evokes feelings of such sadness. Eventually I realized that Satie may have composed this, while grieving over the loss of a loved one. I later then read that around the time Satie had written this, a dear friend of his had passed away.
This the tempo that I believe Satie had in mind, because since it's part of Lent it's almost like it's meant to be mournful of something😢. Beautiful playing, don't stop. 👌👌👌
Not the hardest song to play, but one of the best songs of all time. Music isn’t about physical talent only, it’s about the soul. And this songs goes straight to it. It is so emotional, and you have no idea why. Welcome to classical music.
Satie had some weird names This one is almost normal But he had ones called: Spleen Sea cucumber And (you won't believe this one) Do not drink your chocolate with your fingers
This is the very first piece I ever learnt. It was nearly 3 years ago, and I played it at my school’s concert. This piece means so much to me, thanks for the upload. I’ll forever associate it with the memories of trying to learn how to read, what fingerings to use… I found this quite hard, but still, it’s one of my most happy memories
Thank you The Flaming Piano,while 7th graders play this composition at our school,I can play it from start to finish even though I'm 5th grade.More over,I teach it to my friends!It is one of the first compositions I can play,Thank you again...
Don't know if I wanna laugh or cry, like there's something in life I'm missing or need to see or hear, this melody is playing hide & seek with my emotions, yet my heart skips a beat, Yes I Love It.
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. -Franz Kafka
I’ve been practicing this piece for about a year, on and off. Some how each time I play and hear it, it surprises me. It’s rare to play a piece that I feel is teaching me something about the composer like gnossienne does.
its just to pretty finally someone who plays it slow and most importantly with emotion only real pianists can tell by the emotion this song is giving off!
Ever since I heard Gymnopèdie and learned to play it, I can't stop wanting to hear more and wanting to learn more piano. Absolutely beautiful, never thought I'd enjoy music without vocals in it. Edit: I know how to play this song now 😩 May 31
I know this UA-cam channel isn’t meant for piano tutorial but I’m self taught, I’m never taught how to read notes and I’m a visual learner. But channels like this how learn how to play the piano. This first classical piece I’ve mastered on the piano thanks to you!
Tek kelimeyle büyüleyici... Sanki dinlerken başka bir aleme gidiyorum. Hem daha önce tatmadığım duygulardan bir demet hem de çok tanıdık, derinlerde benliğimden bir parça. Bu parça daima hayatımın müziği olarak kalacak.
Erik Satie On most mornings after he moved to Arcueil, Satie would return to Paris on foot, a distance of about ten kilometres, stopping frequently at his favourite cafés on route. Accoring to Templier, "he walked slowly, taking small steps, his umbrella held tight under his arm. When talking he would stop, bend one knee a little, adjust his pince-nez and place his fist on his lap. The he would take off once more with small deliberate steps." When he eventually reached Paris he visited friends, or arranged to meet them in other cafés by sending pneumatiques. Often the walking from place to place continued, focussing on Montmarte before the war, and subsequently on Montparnasse. From here, Satie would catch the last train back to Arcueil at about 1.00am, or, if he was still engaged in serious drinking, he would miss the train and begin the long walk home during the early hours of the morning. Then the daily round would begin again. Roger Shattuck, in conversations with John Cage in 1982, put forward the interesting theory that "the source of Satie's sense of musical beat--the possibility of variation within repetition, the effect of boredom on the organism--may be this endless walking back and forth across the same landscape day after day . . . the total observation of a very limited and narrow environment." During his walks, Satie was also observed stopping to jot down ideas by the light of the street lamps he passed.
This specific performance is one I come back to time and again. I have no choice but to be cryptic, but your video has helped me through a very dark time that I experienced lately and it was one of the few things I found comfort in while most else in my life was falling to pieces around me. I guess all I can say is thank you for playing this piece in such a way that really connected with my soul at a time of huge stress and fear.
why are so many people obsessed over the song's interpretation? It's just a good song. Art is just entertainment, something that looks, feels, or sounds good.
Heard this at the Van Gogh Alive exhibit in St. petersburg FL and it was really intense with his art flashing a long the walls in sync to the music. incredible experience. thank you!
I absolutely love how you let the notes and the spaces between the notes speak for themselves by really savoring them. This is my favorite of his Gnossiennes (No. 4 and 7 are 2nd and 3rd favorites)!
This was the first piano piece I ever learnt. The man that I love taught me how to play it when I had never touched a piano before 🥺 This piece will always be special to me
Thank you so much for this particular rendition of the song. A lot of artists have a habit of rushing through the early melody, and this slower-paced version definitely resonates with me more, in my uninformed opinion.
This is the best performance for this magnificent piece of music. The perfect tempo. This is the one I first heard in Spotify when I discovered this song. Not so fast, not so slow. Thank you! Cheers from Medellín!
I found this masterpiece while I was dealing with anxiety and stress. After so many years I still find it so relaxing, and all I get is awe. Erik Satie, wherever you are, Thank you! Also, beautifully played and I loved the tempo.
Today I can say that this is my first ever piece I can play on a piano! Thanks to your video man! Keep it up! Beautiful piece and even better played by you 💪🏽
Play piano is about having FUN!! It does not mater if you play it wrong anyway. As long you played this piece with fun and excitement, your a great pianist.
This music came on during an immersive Vincent Van Gogh exhibition in Edinburgh and it was such an emotional hit the moment the piano kicked in it brought everything together in the show that feeling of not only sadness in some of his work but hope, such a great piece of music that’s timeless..
Omg I love listening to this piece so I decided to try to learn it today... It is so unexpectedly easy to play/memorise but still soo effective and wonderful.. already can play the entire piece and I enjoy it so much. Thank you for the upload!!
Thank you for not rushing thru this piece. I was able to learn the right hand and now I need to learn the left hand. 😌 This song lives on repeat in my head and now I can play it whenever I want.
Big thanks to my beautiful husband who pushed me to learn this!❤️🥺 Now I'm absolutely obsessed. It's one thing to listen to but to be able to play it just takes me somewhere otherworldly! ❤️
Dinlerken gece yarısı bir sahilde yoğun dalgaların ilerisindeki sonsuz karanlığa bakarken buluyorum kendimi. Bakışlarımı doğan güneşi terketmiş geceye doğru çevirirken aynı zamanda dalgaların ayaklarıma çarpmasına şahit oluyorum. Ay’ı kapatan bulutlar, şiddetli olmayan ama durmak bilmeyen rüzgar ve dalgaların korkunç gürültüsü olan biten her şeyi umursamadığımı anlamamı sağlıyor. Bu parça bana dağılmış hisleri ve sona ermiş bir savaşı anlatıyor.
This piece is so hypnotic, melancolic, romantic and dark... Such great inspiration.... Thank you Satie and thx The Flaming Piano for this great perfomance.
Eseri dinlerken hem ağlayasım hem de gülesim geliyor,hayallerimin notalarla ifadesi gibi.Hani derler ya müzik insanın ruhunun ziyafetidir,bu şarkı ruhum için şenlikdir. Şarkıyı dinlerken düşündüm ben piyano çalıyorum niye bunu çalmıyorum sonra anladım çalmak için duyqu da lazım
Ben Seni Anlıyorum. Ben bu Müzigi defalarca dinledim, ve halen dinliyorum. Her duydugumda Kalbim ve Ruhuma güzel duygular giriyor. Bazen Ağlıyorum bazen derin Düsüncelere giriyorum. Hayatımda en güzel Müziklerden birisi bu.
This is one of my favorite songs. Ever since ive heard it, i haven't known how to put how it makes me feel into words. Its just a beautiful ✨️masterpiece✨️. Its so sad that composers used to get hated on, treated like dirt, wven get their music taken by a stupid greedy prince to make a girl fall in love with him. I just cant imagine how hurt Mr. Satie was. This is a beautiful song, and well done playing it too!!
Çok garip bi eser... Dinlerken geçmişe gidiyorsun sonra da şimdiki zamana dönüp bi bakıyorsun... Hem hüzünleniyorsun hemde rahatlıyorsun... Moralimin bozuk olduğu her an geldiğim yerdir burası... Çok güzel...
cok dogru bende oyle hissediyorum dinleyince, birde bu hayatin ne kadar bos oldugu geliyo aklima, hepimiz elinde sonunda gidiyoruz, guzel veya cirkin, guclu veya zayif, iyi veya kotu, hepimiz Allaha donucez, ve bu beni rahatlatiyo, hayati anlatan bi parca
@@cagatayindahouse kuranda da ayet varya inna nillahi ve inna ileyhi raciun aynı onungibi amabunun yanı sıra insan a iyi geliyor rahatlıyor tabi kötü tarafı olarak ta anlamsız yere düşüncelere dalıyor gerçitam manada anlamsız değide ayrı mesele
@@AnyWuss2 kanka soylediginin yarisini anladim, bu parca hayati anlatiyor, dedigin gibi dusuncelerede daldiriyor ama bence dusunceler bos degil ya, dusuncelerde hayatin bi parcasi sonucta, hayat cok garip bi yer gercekten, ama onemli olan dusunceler degil ama ne yaptigin, buraya bir kere gelmisiz, ozaman bos gecirecegimize Allahin bizden istedigi seyi yapalim, zaten burada olmamizin asil nedeni o, var olmamizin nedeni
@@cagatayindahouse doğru ama ne yazıkki sorun şu ki hep bahanelerle geçiştiriyorum ya da çoğulcu olmayayım bende dahil olmak üzere tanıdığım birçok kişi geçiriyor
Just learned this in a solid half hour. Still got a ways to go before i can perfect it but I am already playing it pretty well. If I tried to learn this a year ago it would've taken weeks, just keep practicing and you will amaze yourself❤️. This piece is so hauntingly beautiful, this piece and gymnopedie no 1 are my two favorite to play. They make me feel things i've never felt before. Thanks for the video🙏
Like many others said, best timing I've ever heard for this piece. I've been working on this piece for a little while. I've listened to dozens of people playing it. I know it by heart, but I've always had the feeling I was missing something when playing it but now I understand and I'm going to try and adapt my timing and add some softness on certain notes. Thank you.
I feel like this piece perfectly fits a hero's sidekick who slowly starts becoming the villains pet, but only because the sidekick started realizing that the "hero" was the true villain
Like Spag said, I think it better represents a character slowly going insane. The character Sigma from the game OverWatch had his mind shattered after a terrible accident. He went mad, and he constantly heard piano music wherever he went. The creepy thing is how similar it sounds to Gnossienes No.1: ua-cam.com/video/8eh9glWVtu8/v-deo.html
I was on a bus trip a few years ago and we went to a recreated Pioneer Village that was decorated for Autumn/Halloween. I happened to walk past a dimly lit barn with candles in the window and music playing. The sound was haunting to me so I stood there listening. Suddenly, a figure dressed in muslin cloth with her face covered with a veil slowly approached the entrance and was swaying to this tune. I was mesmerized by this. I didn't know what was playing and it took me a while to find it on UA-cam. It was Gnossienne No. 1.
And how did You find out? Did You sing the melody to Shazam or Soundhound? What were the terms which finally brought You to Eric Satie?
The sound is amazing it❤ hypnotized
singapore?
You're the first person I've heard who's not rushing through this piece. Thanks!
And most say it's too slow... Glad you like this tempo! Thanks!
Nice!
there is no tempo meaning u play it how fast u want
@Maester Auron without a shadow of a doubt, Reinbert de Leeuw's interpretation is the best one: ua-cam.com/video/5bIeYqpn0Gk/v-deo.html for the gnossiennes and ua-cam.com/video/nLQhYmesIR0/v-deo.html for some more.
This man respects Lent.
this piece made me discover a whole new feeling that is still unknown to me
Literally read my mind
The feeling of being dead inside
@@alexlupsea2818 exactly
Makes me think of Lovecraft
Your post is most beautiful comment I've read about this piece- it really spoke to/for me thank you😢
Few people know the meaning of Gnossienne. This is the explanation I give when I teach them this song (my explanation). Gnose in French (from Greek gnosis) means knowledge ("connaissance", feminine noun) and "sienne", feminine adjective for "sien" means oneself. Gnossienne is the knowledge every one makes out for oneself.
So it's an introspection on how you express yourself musically (but it works for language too) and how you should choose to express yourself. All the Satie's annotations on the score show this. They are really important and often not respected because few people understand them. "Très luisant" means "Show off" (what you probably do at the beginning when you play). "Questionnez": Question yourself about what you're doing. "Du bout de la pensée" refers to an achieved form of thinking. It's your thought just before speaking or playing and it's your natural thought coming from yourself. "Postulez en vous-même" : Think in yourself among several possibilities and postulate, make a decision. And finally "Sur la langue": on the tip of your tongue, what you are going to play, after a thorough thinking, but without being completely sure, because nobody can be sure of one's knowledge.
Thank you Mr. Satie for this music and philosophy lesson !
Wow, what an amazing explanation!
I don't think there is a single thing normal about Erik Satie
merciii ! :) je n'aurais jamais pense a 'gnostic' :) greek 'gnosis' (german Gnostik, english gnostic) is the 'understanding' or 'recognition', the 'sa-voir' about (christian) mystics. So it can also be interpreted as 'find the devine/mystic in yourself' - very 'Satie' ;)
I sat down and wept upon hearing this..
Damn write that for a school paper.
Finally someone who doesn't play it way too fast, when you play this piece too fast it just takes away the emotion for me
Exactly
And that's the precisely why I have this video in my Music playlist lol
my favorite piece by satie. its just so, like, mysterious, with the placement of the notes, especially for me the b naturals placed over the f minor chords. wonderful, the slower tempo really makes it all around better. what a genius maniac satie was. the thing with this piece is that its quite repetitive, so its up to the performer to make it sound like it never repeats.
You're right, and that's a detailed description! Glad you like it slow too, I think this really is the "Lent" tempo
@@TheFlamingPiano Agreed, slower tempo on this piece has a much more visceral feeling. First piece ever learned to completion. Thanks for the video.
Well said. The difficulty of this piece lies not within its compositional complexity, rather in the performer’s ability to interpret the emotions of the piece in a wide enough capacity to captivate the audience completely.
Thats it! Love the B naturals, creates such a tension!
@Wooters he was just kind of a weird dude
I was listening to this song while i was cleaning my house.
Sorry if it sounds dramatic, but it was such a strange feeling, that i immediately wanted to write a comment.
A stressful and boring feeling. Doing something ordinary and normal, while inside, deep down in the heart, there this sadness and anxiety, mixed with gratitude and comfort.
A real conflict.
Grateful for what you have, and sad for what you can't do or have. Stuck in a loop, waiting for a miracle of fate, for a chance to change, to be better.
It's not a song
@@Mogul25Years what a troll
Lo dijiste como exactamente lo siento yo!!
😢
Exactly.
kinda feels like you finally found your answer but it wasnt the one you were expecting
Lol I agree with that
spot on description!
This comment this comment is what it feels like 😂😂
This piece of music has inspired me to write a story that has a mystical slant to it.
Wish me luck
@@grahamscholes1478 Good luck, Graham.
Bu şarkı bana çocukluğumu hatırlatıyor. Karne almaya çok yakın zamanda yapılan geziler, ilkbahar mevsimi, haftasonu televizyondan çizgi film açıp saatlerce izlemek, kuşların çıkardığı güzel sesler...Nasıl etkileyici bir sanat eseri ki, insanlara sözle anlatılamayacak duygular yaşatıyor.
araban güzelmiş
bana ölümu hatirlatiyor nedense
this song feels like walking down a victorian london street in the rain on an autumn day with an overcast sky and light from shop windows reflecting in the puddles on the cobbled street
Yet to me, (a Londoner), it immediately sounds Parisian. I heard it once played as the backing for a TV commercial. I asked my music teacher what it was called and described it as reminding me of an empty Parisian street. I then played it to the best of my abilities and he recognised it. He was stunned that I had picked up on it's French origins, just from it's style.
I started watching “The Queen’s Gambit” and I just heard this. I had to pause it and immediately come back here because I love this piece so much.
Same❤️
They sure love Satie then cuz there is also a scene where the mother plays Gymnopedie n1
same 🥰
Really? Because I wanna watch that mini series
@@mashaldostzada5216 do it...it's one of the best thing I've watched.
Ahh I always come back to this because the tempo is just perfect.
This is, by far, my favorite interpretation of this piece... The dynamics and pacing are perfect, in my opinion.
Wow, thank you very much!
I agree 💯
I was very little when I first heard this piece. I remember feeling sadness, happines, bliss and some feeling else I still don’t know the name of. But _never_ despair. It just pulled my little heart’s strings. And it still does after 20 something years.
I remember a long time ago I went to a van goh exhibition and this song was playing. I wasn't into much of his work but soon remember listening to this as I walked through the various pieces. I think that was when I grew to really appreciate some of his works. I also started learning the piano because of this song. It was just a surreal experience I can't explain.
J’aime beaucoup ce genre décrypto de souvenirs, javais l’impression d’y être en lisant très belle expérience
Thank you for helping me learn this subtle masterpiece. The brilliance of this piece becomes all the more apparent when you try to play it!
I’m gonna learn to play this on my own piano over quarantine, wish me luck.
Update: Wow it only took just about half an hour to learn this, I’m gonna impress my friends with this next chance I get lol
Do you think that a complete begginer can play it?
Edit :i can play it now :)
@@powder9569 I'm a drummer, never touched piano before and learned it within an hour and a half ^^ so, yes
@@powder9569 I believe a beginner can learn this in no time flat with enough practice, once you recognize the pattern you’ll be able to figure out the entire song.
@@powder9569 I started Piano two weeks ago with zero musical experience, I learnt this in less than a week teaching myself, its very simple its essentially 3 parts across the entire piece. Although the expression is not there for me, I am still not there yet.
It reminds me of how life is fatal. We can’t avoid dying. In someway, we are submitted to destiny. We can’t change it.
same
My dad died a few days ago. Sorrow is always behind the door. Misfortune always flies above our head like a vulture. This is what they call life
@@SacrosanctExplicator My deepest condolences. May the soul of your dad rest in peace.
Best way to avoir death is to not give life
I felt the same. It sounds like Erik Satie is telling a journey where things happen (good or bad), but he made it seems like banality, or fatality. I kind of feel like he made me feel a lot of things by trying not to.
I love Satie. I had a piano teacher for 6-7 years and she died from cancer. She helped me alot, I was really sad. I didnt wanna see her go. One of Satie’s piece was played at her funeral. That was one of the saddest days. I said goodbye while crying a whole lake.
Edit: im still sad till this day
im so sad for her, rest in piece :(
I'm so sorry
This incredible piano piece evokes feelings of such sadness. Eventually I realized that Satie may have composed this, while grieving over the loss of a loved one. I later then read that around the time Satie had written this, a dear friend of his had passed away.
spent my entire life looking for this smh
one of the best and most underrated piano pieces
You're opening my eyes to a whole new world of compositions 🎹🎹🎹 Your timing is 🔥
Thanks! Satie's music really is a whole new world, his music is eccentric
Is this the same channel as rousseau as I'm confused here?
@@TheAnonyy No, but it's inspired by Rousseau and has a similar set-up
me too i was kinda mixed up
So true
This the tempo that I believe Satie had in mind, because since it's part of Lent it's almost like it's meant to be mournful of something😢. Beautiful playing, don't stop. 👌👌👌
I agree. Thanks a lot!
you can interested my piano videos.
Not the hardest song to play, but one of the best songs of all time. Music isn’t about physical talent only, it’s about the soul. And this songs goes straight to it. It is so emotional, and you have no idea why. Welcome to classical music.
I could listen to this song over and over and over and over ...
One of my favourite piece ever. Thanks my friend
Satie had some weird names
This one is almost normal
But he had ones called:
Spleen
Sea cucumber
And (you won't believe this one)
Do not drink your chocolate with your fingers
very goood
@@LudwigvanBeethoven842 Russia
@@TFSMF2 ı am not german
@@TFSMF2 my nick name random
This is the very first piece I ever learnt. It was nearly 3 years ago, and I played it at my school’s concert. This piece means so much to me, thanks for the upload. I’ll forever associate it with the memories of trying to learn how to read, what fingerings to use… I found this quite hard, but still, it’s one of my most happy memories
I’ve came a long way since then, I am now learning Chopin’s waltz in c# minor. It’s beautiful, but rather hard, so wish me luck
@@maelysearl-sur4777 good luck g
Its the only instrument id like to learn to play, but its so intimidating. I cant even remember how to read a sheet.
This piece is kind of having a mystery... i remember those movies scene with this kind of background...
Yes it does feel mysterious, I think some describe it also as depressing. A strange but nice piece from an eccentric composer
@@TheFlamingPiano Yes, it can be posible
I´d say something straight out of a Sherlock Holmes movie
i N t R e S t I n G
Poirot: Episode: Five little Pigs: The Last Summer of my Childhood
Thank you The Flaming Piano,while 7th graders play this composition at our school,I can play it from start to finish even though I'm 5th grade.More over,I teach it to my friends!It is one of the first compositions I can play,Thank you again...
Oh how I love this melody
Don't know if I wanna laugh or cry, like there's something in life I'm missing or need to see or hear, this melody is playing hide & seek with my emotions, yet my heart skips a beat, Yes I Love It.
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
-Franz Kafka
hail the vozhd
Liked :))
@@oussama--zp3yk and his cat
A surprising lack of tnotards on this one
No more the fool
I’ve been practicing this piece for about a year, on and off. Some how each time I play and hear it, it surprises me. It’s rare to play a piece that I feel is teaching me something about the composer like gnossienne does.
its just to pretty finally someone who plays it slow and most importantly with emotion only real pianists can tell by the emotion this song is giving off!
I came upon this melancholic masterpiece in the movie Chocolat and listen to it frequently.
My favorite performance is by pascal rogè.
Ever since I heard Gymnopèdie and learned to play it, I can't stop wanting to hear more and wanting to learn more piano. Absolutely beautiful, never thought I'd enjoy music without vocals in it.
Edit: I know how to play this song now 😩
May 31
I know this UA-cam channel isn’t meant for piano tutorial but I’m self taught, I’m never taught how to read notes and I’m a visual learner. But channels like this how learn how to play the piano. This first classical piece I’ve mastered on the piano thanks to you!
Good to hear. Thank you too!
Tek kelimeyle büyüleyici... Sanki dinlerken başka bir aleme gidiyorum. Hem daha önce tatmadığım duygulardan bir demet hem de çok tanıdık, derinlerde benliğimden bir parça. Bu parça daima hayatımın müziği olarak kalacak.
This was the first piano piece I had ever learned/played to completion, and this is the one video that gave me inspiration
Неймовірно гарний твір , в такому помірному темпі , відображає всю глибину печалі і журби .
I can’t stop rewatching this. Gorgeous, evoking piece. Thank you
Erik Satie
On most mornings after he moved to Arcueil, Satie would return to Paris on foot, a distance of about ten kilometres, stopping frequently at his favourite cafés on route. Accoring to Templier, "he walked slowly, taking small steps, his umbrella held tight under his arm. When talking he would stop, bend one knee a little, adjust his pince-nez and place his fist on his lap. The he would take off once more with small deliberate steps."
When he eventually reached Paris he visited friends, or arranged to meet them in other cafés by sending pneumatiques. Often the walking from place to place continued, focussing on Montmarte before the war, and subsequently on Montparnasse. From here, Satie would catch the last train back to Arcueil at about 1.00am, or, if he was still engaged in serious drinking, he would miss the train and begin the long walk home during the early hours of the morning. Then the daily round would begin again.
Roger Shattuck, in conversations with John Cage in 1982, put forward the interesting theory that "the source of Satie's sense of musical beat--the possibility of variation within repetition, the effect of boredom on the organism--may be this endless walking back and forth across the same landscape day after day . . . the total observation of a very limited and narrow environment." During his walks, Satie was also observed stopping to jot down ideas by the light of the street lamps he passed.
Thanks for sharing. Gives this piece and his others great context. Some of the best art comes from long solitude and inner dialogue.
Yes thank you for sharing this look into the composer’s life
Wow... just wow
..lovely thankyou, listening to the music and reading ur words, it adds a lot, i can't explain it (like the music?).. thankyou 🙂
You can get a sense of this here. Deliberate footsteps, one after another just as you had described
This specific performance is one I come back to time and again. I have no choice but to be cryptic, but your video has helped me through a very dark time that I experienced lately and it was one of the few things I found comfort in while most else in my life was falling to pieces around me. I guess all I can say is thank you for playing this piece in such a way that really connected with my soul at a time of huge stress and fear.
why are so many people obsessed over the song's interpretation? It's just a good song. Art is just entertainment, something that looks, feels, or sounds good.
So exciting . Temp intervals everything. Listening more than 10 times per day . Thank you so much 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you too!
Heard this at the Van Gogh Alive exhibit in St. petersburg FL and it was really intense with his art flashing a long the walls in sync to the music. incredible experience. thank you!
I absolutely love how you let the notes and the spaces between the notes speak for themselves by really savoring them. This is my favorite of his Gnossiennes (No. 4 and 7 are 2nd and 3rd favorites)!
Soooo difficult to find this piece played at the right tempo and with that level of expressiveness. Thank you so much. I am learning it !
This was the first piano piece I ever learnt. The man that I love taught me how to play it when I had never touched a piano before 🥺 This piece will always be special to me
I’m jealous of you 🥺🥺🥺
So atmospheric. This will be played at my funeral.
The tune is so minimalistic but has this unnatural beauty around it. Amazing!!!
Thank you so much for this particular rendition of the song. A lot of artists have a habit of rushing through the early melody, and this slower-paced version definitely resonates with me more, in my uninformed opinion.
I _love_ it. Best version of this piece I could find on YT. Awesome job!
This is one of the most beautiful pieces I have ever heard.
This is the best performance for this magnificent piece of music. The perfect tempo. This is the one I first heard in Spotify when I discovered this song. Not so fast, not so slow. Thank you! Cheers from Medellín!
Thank you very much! My cover's not on Spotify though. Maybe I'll work on that soon
I found this masterpiece while I was dealing with anxiety and stress. After so many years I still find it so relaxing, and all I get is awe. Erik Satie, wherever you are, Thank you!
Also, beautifully played and I loved the tempo.
you should listen to the Quran
Bu şarkı beni henüz bilmediğim bambaşka yerlere götürdü.. tarifsiz duygular içindeyim.
Varoluşsal sancılar çekiyor musun
so haunting and beautiful The agony of the soul painted in music.
Well said
@@jupiter1014 I was going to say that but now I don’t need to 👌
This is basically the piece motivating me to learn piano
Today I can say that this is my first ever piece I can play on a piano! Thanks to your video man! Keep it up! Beautiful piece and even better played by you 💪🏽
Am I the only one who thinks his tempo is amazing and plays along to it? 😅
One of my favorites.
Play piano is about having FUN!! It does not mater if you play it wrong anyway. As long you played this piece with fun and excitement, your a great pianist.
Glad you see it that way. Thanks!
How did he play it the wrong way? This is a masterful performance.
@@BaroqueBach.Did I say HE did it the wrong way? no.
Right !!!!
Satie has all of these haunting melodies ... some invoke various moods, others thought provoking and melancholy contemplation !!!
This Piece makes me feel like I already cried but know I am just in the midst of feeling better.
Bu eseri dinlemekten daha güzel bir şey varsa oda bu eseri çalmaktır.
Indeed
Kesinlikle
Eved
Dinlerken hayatı sorguluyorsun
depresif hayatıma zınk diye uyan harika bir parça
I feel sad... I feel good... I feel something when I listen this masterpiece
This music came on during an immersive Vincent Van Gogh exhibition in Edinburgh and it was such an emotional hit the moment the piano kicked in it brought everything together in the show that feeling of not only sadness in some of his work but hope, such a great piece of music that’s timeless..
In my next life I play this music with my own hands and with my own piano❤
The painted veil made fall in love with this song 🤍
I swear every other version I've heard is rushing through it. This is the first version I've heard that actually breathes.
Omg I love listening to this piece so I decided to try to learn it today...
It is so unexpectedly easy to play/memorise but still soo effective and wonderful.. already can play the entire piece and I enjoy it so much.
Thank you for the upload!!
currently learnin this piece right now, really beautiful
Thank you for not rushing thru this piece. I was able to learn the right hand and now I need to learn the left hand. 😌 This song lives on repeat in my head and now I can play it whenever I want.
Big thanks to my beautiful husband who pushed me to learn this!❤️🥺 Now I'm absolutely obsessed. It's one thing to listen to but to be able to play it just takes me somewhere otherworldly! ❤️
Never heard this piece but I loved it just after few seconds. It gives me the vibessss. Also nice work.
Dinlerken gece yarısı bir sahilde yoğun dalgaların ilerisindeki sonsuz karanlığa bakarken buluyorum kendimi. Bakışlarımı doğan güneşi terketmiş geceye doğru çevirirken aynı zamanda dalgaların ayaklarıma çarpmasına şahit oluyorum. Ay’ı kapatan bulutlar, şiddetli olmayan ama durmak bilmeyen rüzgar ve dalgaların korkunç gürültüsü olan biten her şeyi umursamadığımı anlamamı sağlıyor. Bu parça bana dağılmış hisleri ve sona ermiş bir savaşı anlatıyor.
This is the most brilliant piece I've ever heard
This piece is so hypnotic, melancolic, romantic and dark... Such great inspiration.... Thank you Satie and thx
The Flaming Piano for this great perfomance.
This piece took me years to appreciate it. But, when I listen to this music I'm able to paint the sounds I hear. This is such a charm.
Best part 0:59
Thank you
The universe is singing to me!!!
What is that melody?!
Eseri dinlerken hem ağlayasım hem de gülesim geliyor,hayallerimin notalarla ifadesi gibi.Hani derler ya müzik insanın ruhunun ziyafetidir,bu şarkı ruhum için şenlikdir.
Şarkıyı dinlerken düşündüm ben piyano çalıyorum niye bunu çalmıyorum sonra anladım çalmak için duyqu da lazım
Ben Seni Anlıyorum. Ben bu Müzigi defalarca dinledim, ve halen dinliyorum. Her duydugumda Kalbim ve Ruhuma güzel duygular giriyor. Bazen Ağlıyorum bazen derin Düsüncelere giriyorum. Hayatımda en güzel Müziklerden birisi bu.
Evet ya çok guzel♥️😍
PORÇAYLANDINIZ UZHAHUAUAHA
Duyğuya gedən yol, sevgidən keçir..
Türkleri temsilen burdayim 🇹🇷
A successful performance 👏👏👏👏👏
This is one of my favorite songs. Ever since ive heard it, i haven't known how to put how it makes me feel into words. Its just a beautiful ✨️masterpiece✨️. Its so sad that composers used to get hated on, treated like dirt, wven get their music taken by a stupid greedy prince to make a girl fall in love with him. I just cant imagine how hurt Mr. Satie was. This is a beautiful song, and well done playing it too!!
0:58-1:17 Best part in the symphony ♥️
Çok garip bi eser... Dinlerken geçmişe gidiyorsun sonra da şimdiki zamana dönüp bi bakıyorsun... Hem hüzünleniyorsun hemde rahatlıyorsun... Moralimin bozuk olduğu her an geldiğim yerdir burası... Çok güzel...
Aynen be
cok dogru bende oyle hissediyorum dinleyince, birde bu hayatin ne kadar bos oldugu geliyo aklima, hepimiz elinde sonunda gidiyoruz, guzel veya cirkin, guclu veya zayif, iyi veya kotu, hepimiz Allaha donucez, ve bu beni rahatlatiyo, hayati anlatan bi parca
@@cagatayindahouse kuranda da ayet varya inna nillahi ve inna ileyhi raciun aynı onungibi amabunun yanı sıra insan a iyi geliyor rahatlıyor tabi kötü tarafı olarak ta anlamsız yere düşüncelere dalıyor gerçitam manada anlamsız değide ayrı mesele
@@AnyWuss2 kanka soylediginin yarisini anladim, bu parca hayati anlatiyor, dedigin gibi dusuncelerede daldiriyor ama bence dusunceler bos degil ya, dusuncelerde hayatin bi parcasi sonucta, hayat cok garip bi yer gercekten, ama onemli olan dusunceler degil ama ne yaptigin, buraya bir kere gelmisiz, ozaman bos gecirecegimize Allahin bizden istedigi seyi yapalim, zaten burada olmamizin asil nedeni o, var olmamizin nedeni
@@cagatayindahouse doğru ama ne yazıkki sorun şu ki hep bahanelerle geçiştiriyorum ya da çoğulcu olmayayım bende dahil olmak üzere tanıdığım birçok kişi geçiriyor
Love this one ...thank you for choosing it ...a lovely rendition ...very passionate 🙏🌹🎹
This is the first song I'm self teaching myself and it's going pretty well ♡
Just learned this in a solid half hour. Still got a ways to go before i can perfect it but I am already playing it pretty well. If I tried to learn this a year ago it would've taken weeks, just keep practicing and you will amaze yourself❤️. This piece is so hauntingly beautiful, this piece and gymnopedie no 1 are my two favorite to play. They make me feel things i've never felt before. Thanks for the video🙏
Like many others said, best timing I've ever heard for this piece. I've been working on this piece for a little while. I've listened to dozens of people playing it. I know it by heart, but I've always had the feeling I was missing something when playing it but now I understand and I'm going to try and adapt my timing and add some softness on certain notes. Thank you.
I learned it as well but I believe after you learn it...it just begins....now you must put theatrics into it.
@@jupiter1014 indeed, this is an ongoing process. May take a lifetime for some pieces!
I feel like this piece perfectly fits a hero's sidekick who slowly starts becoming the villains pet, but only because the sidekick started realizing that the "hero" was the true villain
Like Spag said, I think it better represents a character slowly going insane. The character Sigma from the game OverWatch had his mind shattered after a terrible accident. He went mad, and he constantly heard piano music wherever he went. The creepy thing is how similar it sounds to Gnossienes No.1: ua-cam.com/video/8eh9glWVtu8/v-deo.html
1:20 it soooooo wonderfull ❤❤
The speed and timing is perfect
So many people rush this piece, love the tempo. Very well done.
Piyono ve keman çalan insanları çok seviyorum.Seni farklı diyarlara götürebilen özel insanlardır.
oha la türk
@@recep14b28 Türk değilim kardeşim Türkiyeliyim☺️
@@Hsynnali türksün
@@Hsynnali türksün işte boş yapma
i’m learning this piece and using your reference to getting correct fingerings and dynamics. very well done 👍
Glad to hear, thanks a lot! Also check out Alessio Nanni's cover. I based mine off his
WHAT IS THAT MELODY!?!
Já procurei vários vídeos e nenhum consegue fazer tão perfeito como esse cara fez! 😮
This is the only version I listen to. The way you slow it down is perfect.
-I didn't need yer help, ya know- Thanks!
@@TheFlamingPiano Don’t worry I caught that reference 😂