I don’t know why I’m writing this here, but I just got diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s today. I’m 22. I’ve never felt more fearful of anything in my entire life than I do now. But I’m here right now and in this moment, I do not want to forget these pieces.
@@maltepersson3365 It's a translation. The original quote in French is as follows: "Je suis venu au monde très jeune dans un temps très vieux." To the best of my knowledge, the quote is attributed to Satie and the translation is accurate.
Satie was considered talentless and exceptionally abnormal during his time mainly because his style was unlike any other musician of his day. Now he’s credited for inventing ambient music. What amazing and beautiful music composed by a strange yet highly talented genius.
@EbonyPope because he wasn’t normal for his time. People liked composers that had intensity and bombast back then; even more so during the 17 and 1800s. That was what was “normal” for those timeframes.
Like sighing behind a window and gazing at furtive, misty ghosts running after each other under the rain. Beholder, you're thinking about better days now dead, again.
it feels like it's not even ambivalent, just incredibly nuanced in a shape or form that's both slightly mysterious and,incredibly ineffable; it feels like this song does not either speak about life nor death, rather something else. Not necessarily beyond our reach. Like if time had the ability to pause, and you could not admire nor despise the landscape of nature, but simply watch and feel. Perhaps it's abscense and presence at the same time; a sheer feeling of numbness, lack of meaning, yet mere appreciation for the stationary world.
Same for me. Indeed this piece of music is beautiful, but for me, it almost feels like some hauntingly, bitter sweet memories... memories I can't remember of. Almost like a parallel life
My cats like Eric Satie best and I've tried alot of composers on them. They lie on the rug and just chill, listening. I'm so proud of their exceptional good taste.
@@spiritualrepast , he wasn't hardcore communist or anything like Joe Biden, Obama or Fidel Castro. his music is top level and he has 1000% more talent than the commies i just mentioned.
I used to play these pieces when I was a teenage student. Haven’t played or listened to them since. Listening now I’m taken straight back 35 years to my family home, sitting at the piano. I can even smell the room around me! Isn’t music amazing?
Applause to Klara, the pianist, who interpreted his music with the feeling, emotion, and sense of mystery and whim... I strongly suspect Erik Satie would agree... she captured not just the notes... but the essence of his music.
Cette musique me bouleverse depuis longtemps elle exprime quelque chose de mystérieux, comme un langage, un message, écoutez ressentez ! J'ai du mal à le définir ! C'est magique,une musique du passé qui nous parle au présent, en faite un message pour le futur!
I lost this Melody for 1 Year. I Had 2 attempts to find it looking everywhere on all the composers I could think about and I didnt succeed... Today I was about to do something good and I chose a random Playlist which started with Bach....and this song was the third in the list.... OMG!!!!! What a bless !!! U are a good person if u read till here. I Wish u a good Day! Be Happy!
I heard somewhere that Satie wanted folk to listen to the silence in his music. Most people only think of notes and sounds. But Satie also composed with the value of silence in mind too. Genius. Providing a fuller appreciation of music. He wants us to muse and meditate. I hope I'm starting to get it.
I'm not sure if anyone will understand what I'm trying to say, but I find Gnossiennes absolutely exhausting to listen to. Within the space of just a few notes, Erik Satie takes me on a rollercoaster ride of constantly changing emotions - happy to sad, hopeful to hopeless, and even beautiful to ugly. I think maybe his music is a window into his troubled mind. A troubled genius.
I remember my Orchestra teacher in High School gifted everyone different composer cassettes for Christmas. I received the Erik Satie one, which was different than what everyone else got, mainly Bach, etc. I used to listen to it in my Walkman and it spoke to me even then at age 15. Such depth of emotion and poignancy. . .
Well, @@ishitrealbad3039 I was simply demonstrating the willingness to learn. Are you repeating the question I posed to you because you don't understand what I'm asking? I sincerely thought you might have the ability, even the capacity to teach me, but I guess you're still learning.
Gnossiennes no. 1 sounds like coming home, even having never heard it before. I didn't know it was possible to feel nostalgia for something I've never heard. This is art.
That's very common for this type of music. Erik Satie invented what he called "furniture music", or what we would now call ambient music. Minecraft's first composer, Daniel Rosenfeld, AKA C418, used Satie's furniture music as inspiration, and lo and behold many consider the pieces Rosenfeld wrote for Minecraft to be the essence of nostalgia. It's entirely possible much of this nostalgia is the result of so many people growing up with the game and its music, but I think at least some portion of this feeling is the result of the music itself. And even for the pieces that are more melancholic than nostalgic, sadness is an inherent part of nostalgia; happy that it was but sad that it no longer is. Even if you have no nostalgic attachments to the music, the melancholic nature of it may cause you to reminisce as you listen, forming new associations and resulting in nostalgia. I think this makes some sense considering how it's composed. Satie didn't intend for his furniture music to be listened to on its own like this, it was meant to merely exist in the background, not drawing much attention to itself. But when you do actually listen to it on its own, you notice the emptiness, the feeling that something should be there but isn't. And in a way, that's sort of what nostalgia is. Wishing you could go back but you can't, something that was once important to you is no longer available to you, or at least not in the same way. Something is missing.
Interesting... I been asking the same question my self. I found my self lost. I’m afraid to loose everything I have now to become the person I always wanted to be. Been alone at the end is what stops me from giving everything up.
Each time I check, the comment section underneath Satie’s pieces is classy. One of the few safespace on the internet to scroll through lovely human beings referring to the soul speaking music of the french maestro… Thank you
I listened to this during my pregnancy and I just gave birth to my beautiful daughter on March 8, 22 and we are sitting here in the hospital and enjoying this exquisite pieces of music.
Gnossiene no.1 is one of the sounds of my childhood -- my dad had discovered quite early on, with impish glee, that the melody scared the living daylights out of me. My body still responds to it the same way, twenty years on. Haunting and visceral.
As if to confirm this, I recall the first time I heard Gnossiene No. 1, many years ago, it was used on the soundtrack of a documentary about Emilee Sagee, a school mistress, who, in the 19th century was alleged to have been haunted by a sort of doppelganger that accompanied her and was seen by other people. This music was used to spine-tingling effect...
Lo he descubierto atraves de una novela que me ha cautivado!!que maravilla en alguna peli la han puesto también. Tiene un algo màgica que te transporta❤
This man alienated all friends and family, then wrote like a genius, about what seems to me, his soul…. He was an outsider in his time and shines now as he is gone. Life of a starving artist…. That to me is immortality! He left his mark and it will live on, forever! Btw my mother taught piano and it was irrelevant to me until I heard Erik. Also my name is Erik… lmfao
Nem is tudtam, hogy a Világnak van egy ilyen különös, varázslatos, félreeső Helye ahová Satie mester elkísért most engem. Oly szerencsés vagyok, hogy e Különös Varázsló ilyen szeretettel hajlandó felfedni e bűvöletes hely Titkait. Ilyen nyíltsággal és Őszintén. Köszönöm...Köszönöm...
Sitting here driving through the hectic streets of Cairo, listening to this in my headphones. I can hear the loud beeps of the thousands of cars around me, watching women try to sell tissues in the streets to make a living. I watch as the old fashioned boats sail down the Nile, full of families, newly Weds and couples. I remember how Egypt has captured my soul despite it's hectic, crazy, ways.
@@omer353 I drove through Turkey in 1998 from Izmir to Antalya by myself along the southern coast road. The most hospitable people ever, amazing food, it was a trip of a lifetime. I loved the Turkish music. The call to prayer at the mosques stirred me also. Very beautiful
I would love to watch a 2 hour documentary about the first track .. I want someone to unpack every note and every meaning behind it, it's so full of life secrets I can tell.
You’d be watching some pre USA black and white Polaroid reel of clips, of really suspicious looking men in suits around the globe setting up the world as we know it today. Science, business, land, law and division. Spies behind enemy lines and star crossed lovers with hope in their eyes. Without a doubt the story would have a tragic end.
French people are known for their unusual interests which are engraved in their artistic works too and it always somehow works out so well for them. Erik Satie is one of the best examples of an exceptional person, so is his great music!
Satie était une personne "inhabituelle". Sa musique est "inhabituelle". Et cela d'une façon extrême. Mais le miracle, parce que c'est un vraiment un miracle, ou un mystère, c'est que cette musique entre chez vous et c'est comme si vous la connaissiez de toute éternité...
The intro scene or just a scene set to the music should be the main character narrating something Satie wrote in his "Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1912)" because that is some serial killer shit: “My only nourishment consists of food that is white: eggs, sugar, shredded bones, the fat of dead animals, veal, salt, coconuts, chicken cooked in white water, moldy fruit, rice, turnips, sausages in camphor, pastry, cheese (white varieties), cotton salad, and certain kinds of fish (without their skin). I boil my wine and drink it cold mixed with the juice of the Fuchsia. I have a good appetite, but never talk when eating for fear of strangling myself.”
J'ai des souvenirs de journées chaudes d'été sur ces musiques. Quand la chaleur est écrasante, que les rideaux se gonflent dans le vent et que j'agonise de mélancolie sur mon lit d'adolescente. La musique d'Éric Satie est une très bonne compagnie.
all these big musicians have offered so much to the whole humanity until it vanishes. Even if hundreds or thousand years later we are robot-like, music like this will be the connection with people's souls and nature
It does help me to calm down and focus on studying ( finishing bachelor degree at fourty ..) at night whilst being a mother and working full time..... absolutely beautiful music
I only ever listen to it when I'm alone. Nobody else I know would like it at all. Yes, it is powerful but the power excites me, especially Gnossienne 3 at 4:48. It's an itch inside the head that can't be scratched, that would be a crime to scratch, because the itch itself is therapeutic.
Popularity and fascinstion of Satie‘s music has an eternal life Our lives is fleeting and lasting less than100 years. Howevr, Satie‘s these music will transcend time and space and races of people and Various religion
There is a huge ocean of music out there. Don't sit on the shoreline just dipping your toe in. Dive deep and explore. Only way you'll discover the beauty and mystery of Satie. Played his works learning the piano as a child. Still confuses me how his mind could compose such enigmatic pieces.
not an ocean, but an entire universe, it constantly amazes me, it never ends, if I had a thousand years, I would not have explored half of it. I have dove in head first, and it has changed my life
Dear satie, i know you don't like people listening to your music, but it's the only thing that i can even enjoy a little now that I've had my heart ripped from my chest
I love Erick Satie, much love from Russia, one of my favourite composer! i remember passing by a narrow passage somewhere in Paris listening to this pice of art, i listen to this everytime i read, Merci !
France is lucky to have some masterpieces like theses : ,Gnossienne and Gymnopédie by Erik Satie, Claire de Lune by Debussy and J’y suis jamais allé, La valse d’Amélie, Comptine d’un autre été… by Yann Tiersen and so on… We are all, French people, proud of them ❤
N'oubliez pas la génie de Françous Coupérin ! Les barricades mystérieuses, par exemple. Mon compositeur préféré de votre pays est Guillaume de Machaut.
@@Flawlesslaughter Exactly. Just came in off Scriabin sonata 5, and it's insane how Satie holds up doing comparatively so little. He just nailed the formula for getting the most out of something simple.
I've been enthralled by Satie since first hearing his music 60 years ago. I have had, over this time, a number of recordings of his work. I am particularly enamored with the interpretations of Hungarian pianist Klara Kormendi and am delighted to see her here on UA-cam. Her renditions of Satie are, for me, perfection.
LE MONDE A TOUJOURS ÉTÉ BRUTE LA VIE EST UN DRAME PAR MANIPULATION ET CONTRÔLE UN MAL ENTENDU A DONNER NAISSANCE AUX HUMAINS ET UNE POIGNÉE D ORGUEILLEUX C EST EMPARÉ DU BONHEUR ET NOUS LAISSE LA PEINE ET LA TRISTESSE
It took me forever to find this piece. And when I say forever i'm talking about elementary school library music times. I just turned 24 and Can assure you that this is my favorite piano piece EVER. So many unstable emotions. Happy to have found you again!
Mysterieusement hors du temps(...) Tellement profond, voir spirituel. Magnifique n'est pas le mot que j'aimerais poser. Bravo à l'interprète qui retranscrit parfaitement cette œuvre de Satie, les emotions cachées et quelques secrets qu'il a laissé dans ces Gnossiennes... Les parties 1 et 3 sont l'acmé du spleen et de la sensibilité au sens large.
Esa pieza es tan hermosa y perfecta. Me fulminó, es indescriptible, para mi también ha sido de las cosas mas felices que le han podido pasar a mis oídos.
I'm a classical ignoramus but this has always captivated me. I don't have the musical vocabulary to say why but it's note timing and note progression always seems to surprise my tiny brain, no matter how many times I listen to it! It's endlessly refreshing. Maybe one day I'll find a documentary that'll explain just what kind of musical trickery Satie is pulling on me!
Satie was very eccentric and modern, his music was both controversial and ahead of its time, leaning to concepts that are used in modern music, like polytonalism. Adam Neely has a great video on polytonal music, that mentions some of Satie's work. Weird history has a 10 min documentary on Satie as a person, his work and his life
Satie has one of the truest understandings of pain and love. His work just rips that pit feeling right out of you and exposes it and ironically makes it something to cherish. Through pain we find beauty and that's what I love about him.
Hope I don't sound too pretentious here, but these pieces really invokes quite delicate impressions: something like a soothing pain or a nostalgia for something you never actually experienced...
I love my music, I love what I listen to (electronic, dub, soul, funk, most things) but I sometimes listen to an older guy like Satie and it's like damn..have we really got better at music since the 18th or 19th century? His music is just timeless, so perfectly conceived.. He obviously had the skill to write complex music but chose to be understated, he understood the poignancy of simplicity. I know the word 'master' is widely overused but I feel it fits with him, there is nothing you could add or take away to improve his music. He's like a very articulate writer that knows how to choose the right words to say exactly what he wants in it's purest form.
Her dinlediğimde derin bir ah çekip dalıp giderim uzaklara, üstelik üzgün olmam da gerekmiyor. Bana sessiz de çığlık atılabileceğini öğretti bu parça. 1:27
“Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts.” Tennessee Williams.
Many times I have been to funerals and some make those comments about 'away with melancholy'. Some of the most pivotal moments in my life have involved a lot of melancholy. Lots of Satie's music is the state of melancholy or deep reflection that is often sad. When I go to a funeral of a special person I feel melancholy and actually like it, I miss them and want to feel sad. Sad to me is a place you go to when you feel deeply about someone or something, it makes me feel rich inside and totally appreciative of someone I miss. To want to change that into a false happiness is for others. I dont see it as a negative state but an aware one where my best poetry comes from. It takes me to my centre where I can draw upon a deep well of fresh cool inspiration.
This music makes an image in my brain that I’m in an endless library that holds all the information in the universe wandering for all eternity driven mad that by all of knowledge I cannot comprehend
I was once offered all there is to know in the universe in some sort of a dream, but that much knowledge in a split second, including all the future horrors in my life was just too much to bear, too overwhelming and made me recoil backwards, like when opening the lid on a sewer and inhaling the stench too deeply. So now I know all but not fully conscious. Still wondering what it was for and what would have happened if continued to look into this endless library?
@@RawDoggin_78 evet knk bende de var. Ugrasiyoruz iste, klasik muzik ve arkadaslarim bu sıkıntılarimdan kacmamin tek yolu oldu. Bi de sinav stresini dusunemiyorum. Allah yardimcin olsun kardesim.
Sınav stresinden kurtulmak için dinliyorum ben de. Aynı şekilde kaygı bozukluğum var. Seni biraz da olsun anlıyorum, cidden zor. Umarım ikimiz de kaygılarımızı aşmanın yolunu buluruz. Şans diliyorum sana.
@@yasamayadair9887 Bende de ayni sorunlar var ve hic merak etme zamanla daha iyi oluyorsun. Şu an kendimi daha iyi hissediyorum eski halimden. Geçicek bunlar merak etme.
Merci à la pianiste Klára Körmendi de nous avoir donné certainement la meilleur interprétation de ces gnossiennes, voilà plus de deux ans que j’essaye désespérément d’avoir le même touché qu’elle, les sonorités sont parfaites, chaque annotation loufoque de Satie est respectée!
I don’t know why I’m writing this here, but I just got diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s today. I’m 22. I’ve never felt more fearful of anything in my entire life than I do now. But I’m here right now and in this moment, I do not want to forget these pieces.
I'm really sorry to hear that.
geçmiş olsun, şifa bulmanızı dilerim.
Asla kabul etme geçici bir süredir tekrar toparlanacaksın
Часто врачи тоже ошибаются. Нужно верить в себя! Всё будет хорошо
❤ and take 2nd and 3rd opinions as well
This man is such an artistic genius that apparently even his glasses stand in respect and don't need to be held up by his ears. That's true talent.
lol
I wish I could like a comment twice hahaha
Morpheus style
loled hard on this one. Great ass comment.
I am ded laughing ..
“I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.”
― Erik Satie
He is french if you didn't know that.
@@maltepersson3365 no duh
The quote can't then be very accurate cuz its in english, if he didn't perhaps know how to speak english.
@@maltepersson3365 It's a translation. The original quote in French is as follows: "Je suis venu au monde très jeune dans un temps très vieux."
To the best of my knowledge, the quote is attributed to Satie and the translation is accurate.
@@astcrace If it's a translation, then it's all right and logical.👍
Satie was considered talentless and exceptionally abnormal during his time mainly because his style was unlike any other musician of his day. Now he’s credited for inventing ambient music. What amazing and beautiful music composed by a strange yet highly talented genius.
His style was dependent on Gabriel Faure, and his contemporaries included Debussy and Ravel.
Why was he considered talentless? Because he wouldn't play fast lines?
@EbonyPope because he wasn’t normal for his time. People liked composers that had intensity and bombast back then; even more so during the 17 and 1800s. That was what was “normal” for those timeframes.
The first Gnossienne is the pure transcription of melancholy
i wish I could like a comment twice....❤❤❤❤
@@magdalenasracz Thank you ;)
The others are the greatest works of art, believe me. But you already know, I'm sure. :)
Like sighing behind a window and gazing at furtive, misty ghosts running after each other under the rain.
Beholder, you're thinking about better days now dead, again.
I was just creatin à playllst called melancholy while listenning to this music...
This piece of music so confuses my mind. I cannot tell if I am happy, sad or where my mind really is? This is some kind of therapy for the soul.
it feels like it's not even ambivalent, just incredibly nuanced in a shape or form that's both slightly mysterious and,incredibly ineffable; it feels like this song does not either speak about life nor death, rather something else. Not necessarily beyond our reach. Like if time had the ability to pause, and you could not admire nor despise the landscape of nature, but simply watch and feel. Perhaps it's abscense and presence at the same time; a sheer feeling of numbness, lack of meaning, yet mere appreciation for the stationary world.
@@pulilinda Yes all true. the greatest truth about it is that it is unfathomable and that is the true greatness of it.
Same for me. Indeed this piece of music is beautiful, but for me, it almost feels like some hauntingly, bitter sweet memories... memories I can't remember of. Almost like a parallel life
Its a therapy to be confused? Ok 🤔
@@pulilinda Beautiful explanation!
My cats like Eric Satie best and I've tried alot of composers on them. They lie on the rug and just chill, listening. I'm so proud of their exceptional good taste.
must try that on our three cats! Thanks for the tip.
They choose you ! Sure they have good taste !
yes, your cats definitely have great taste in music im sure its that
Like Henri, le chat noir... ua-cam.com/video/R_fUsssnHPw/v-deo.html&start_radio=1
@silverbud ..while listening to Satie..
number 4, 5 and 6 are the darkest. Satie's music takes you somewhere else.
Ma préférence est la 1
5 is the least dark!
@@Richard-d1y , i dont know about that.
Μην ξεχνάς ότι είχε ασχοληθεί με τον αποκρυφισμό..... Μετά το γύρισε στο κομμουνισμό....
@@spiritualrepast , he wasn't hardcore communist or anything like Joe Biden, Obama or Fidel Castro. his music is top level and he has 1000% more talent than the commies i just mentioned.
Who is also up at 3 am listening to this masterpiece and feels deep gratitude?
3am on the dot... I don't know how you predicted that, but I imagine we're in the same boat. All the best my friend
3:20 am.
@@michaelbailey7344 3:27
im the worst sleeper , needless to say i enjoy my music thank goodness , this bloke is utter divine hes a genius lol xx
1:50 AM
I never realised that some of the most nostalgic pieces i know are all written by Satie. His music is a whole other level of emotion and philosophy.
Yes
Listen Astor Piazzolla
@@elizafilomenasilvadesouza1755 Their styles are very different, anyway both are great composers.
ua-cam.com/video/KhJp-LaRjNs/v-deo.html
Never boring soothing,like getting a rub down,hes right he plays to lemurs.Poe
I used to play these pieces when I was a teenage student. Haven’t played or listened to them since. Listening now I’m taken straight back 35 years to my family home, sitting at the piano. I can even smell the room around me! Isn’t music amazing?
Thanks for the story James. Nothing beats nostalgia.
Music is THE most powerful and spiritual of the arts, it is a direct link to soul.
Nice story thanks for sharing. Music is the ultimate ´Madeleine de Proust’ :)))
Actually, human brain is amazing.
But did it make you feel like a Bond villain?
No.1 0:01
No.2 3:10
No.3 4:48
No.4 7:14
No.5 10:10
No.6 12:39
Legend
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was looking for this comment, thx!
PIN THIS!!!!
Myyy N word! good looking out!
"My dream is to be played everywhere, not only at the Opera"
Well I expect this will make him pleased, wherever he is.
Mans is even in watch dogs 2
That's a rare thing, a man whose dream was fulfilled long after his death
@@myamdane6895 the true power of legacy
I read "at Oprah" first
@@emil8679 he was a dandy would be a celebrity in our age 😂
Congratulations to the pianist Klára Körmendi for playing this masterpiece so perfectly
She has a brilliant affinity for Satie
Best n5 i ever listened
🇹🇯 Klára Körmendi is a brilliant hungarian pianist
the tempo was a bit high
@@PepesCashino that's what makes it so interesting, less dramatical than most interpretations, more discretely expressive
How can something so simple sound so sophisticated?
Have you ever heard of minimalism?
Genius.
That's why.
Because it’s not just simple it’s deep and touch your soul!! The pianist did a great job playing these pieces is the hardest thing to do
Did you try playing it on a piano? It’s not as simple as it seems
Listening to the Gnossiennes is the closest I can get to dreaming whilst awake. It touches the soul.
It makes me feel homesick for a life I can’t remember
@@druidesspath The Welsh have a word for that feeling. Hiraeth.
Opium has a similar effect.
@@charliesilverman1132lmaooo
Applause to Klara, the pianist, who interpreted his music with the feeling, emotion, and sense of mystery and whim... I strongly suspect Erik Satie would agree... she captured not just the notes... but the essence of his music.
You definetly feel the mystery in the way she plays. He would've been satisfied, as we all are since we come back here very often 😄
Please excuse my ignorance, can you tell me her whole name, I would like to know more about her
@@SmileyDN klára körmendi, she's in the description
@@SmileyDN Klára Körmendi, Hungarian pianist, my mother ❤️
Cette musique me bouleverse depuis longtemps elle exprime quelque chose de mystérieux, comme un langage, un message, écoutez ressentez ! J'ai du mal à le définir ! C'est magique,une musique du passé qui nous parle au présent, en faite un message pour le futur!
Très bien exprimé
Ce sont des œuvres musicales, faisant référence à la Gnose. Elle parle de l'éveil spirituel. Le détachement du matériel.
Je ressens la même chose❤
Plâng și sint fascinata de aceasta bucată muzicală atât de sensibila😢😮
I lost this Melody for 1 Year. I Had 2 attempts to find it looking everywhere on all the composers I could think about and I didnt succeed...
Today I was about to do something good and I chose a random Playlist which started with Bach....and this song was the third in the list.... OMG!!!!! What a bless !!!
U are a good person if u read till here.
I Wish u a good Day! Be Happy!
same
I heard somewhere that Satie wanted folk to listen to the silence in his music. Most people only think of notes and sounds. But Satie also composed with the value of silence in mind too. Genius. Providing a fuller appreciation of music. He wants us to muse and meditate. I hope I'm starting to get it.
I'm not sure if anyone will understand what I'm trying to say, but I find Gnossiennes absolutely exhausting to listen to. Within the space of just a few notes, Erik Satie takes me on a rollercoaster ride of constantly changing emotions - happy to sad, hopeful to hopeless, and even beautiful to ugly. I think maybe his music is a window into his troubled mind. A troubled genius.
Creativity is both a great gift and a curse… a source of genius and mental illness…
I think it makes demands on the brain. The waiting, the anticipation, surprise and the delicacy of it.
The fact that we feeling those emotions does that mean we're also trouble minded?
@@laacolombebs6340 - that is quie possible, but I believe that almost everybody who first hears Satie's music gets eotional.
What a beautiful way to describe...
I remember my Orchestra teacher in High School gifted everyone different composer cassettes for Christmas. I received the Erik Satie one, which was different than what everyone else got, mainly Bach, etc. I used to listen to it in my Walkman and it spoke to me even then at age 15. Such depth of emotion and poignancy. . .
that's a good teacher
Indeed@@bruhzzer
The capacity to learn is a gift
The ability to learn is a skill
The willingness to learn is a choice
...and your point is?
The third determines the people who will have the blessing to have a glipse of what our universe really is.
@@christopherdiedrich40 ...and your point is?
Well, @@ishitrealbad3039 I was simply demonstrating the willingness to learn. Are you repeating the question I posed to you because you don't understand what I'm asking? I sincerely thought you might have the ability, even the capacity to teach me, but I guess you're still learning.
@@christopherdiedrich40 I can't tell if you're being a smart aleck but this is one smartass response...
I'm sitting on my parent's balcony, it's cold and it's raining. Couldn't have a better soundtrack for this moment.
Satie was a pluvophile- that is to say he loved the rain :)
Erik, my dear old friend.
💀
@@ame692 Both. Dead friends. :D
Underrated
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😂
Gnossiennes no. 1 sounds like coming home, even having never heard it before. I didn't know it was possible to feel nostalgia for something I've never heard. This is art.
For me , too. I cannot explain why it sounds so familiar to me...like Home
That's very common for this type of music. Erik Satie invented what he called "furniture music", or what we would now call ambient music.
Minecraft's first composer, Daniel Rosenfeld, AKA C418, used Satie's furniture music as inspiration, and lo and behold many consider the pieces Rosenfeld wrote for Minecraft to be the essence of nostalgia. It's entirely possible much of this nostalgia is the result of so many people growing up with the game and its music, but I think at least some portion of this feeling is the result of the music itself.
And even for the pieces that are more melancholic than nostalgic, sadness is an inherent part of nostalgia; happy that it was but sad that it no longer is. Even if you have no nostalgic attachments to the music, the melancholic nature of it may cause you to reminisce as you listen, forming new associations and resulting in nostalgia.
I think this makes some sense considering how it's composed. Satie didn't intend for his furniture music to be listened to on its own like this, it was meant to merely exist in the background, not drawing much attention to itself. But when you do actually listen to it on its own, you notice the emptiness, the feeling that something should be there but isn't. And in a way, that's sort of what nostalgia is. Wishing you could go back but you can't, something that was once important to you is no longer available to you, or at least not in the same way. Something is missing.
@@KingNedyawhat a beautiful comment
“I don't know what's worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you've always wanted to be,and feel alone.”
Daniel Keyes.
I think the first option is the best....
At least I've tried the 2nd option....but I think I preferred to not know and live a simple and happy life
only one choise: be happy
Always best to be yourself ;)
Interesting... I been asking the same question my self. I found my self lost.
I’m afraid to loose everything I have now to become the person I always wanted to be. Been alone at the end is what stops me from giving everything up.
Each time I check, the comment section underneath Satie’s pieces is classy.
One of the few safespace on the internet to scroll through lovely human beings referring to the soul speaking music of the french maestro…
Thank you
I listened to this during my pregnancy and I just gave birth to my beautiful daughter on March 8, 22 and we are sitting here in the hospital and enjoying this exquisite pieces of music.
All the best to you and your precious family 💝
You might enjoy Claude Debussy if you don't already know him.
My little daughter was also born on March 8, 22.
May you and your daughter grow old, wise and in exquisite health. Well wishes, stranger.
Stick in your head
Gnossiene no.1 is one of the sounds of my childhood -- my dad had discovered quite early on, with impish glee, that the melody scared the living daylights out of me. My body still responds to it the same way, twenty years on. Haunting and visceral.
love this ^
Ever had a look at this? ua-cam.com/video/gbX6lm-DZ4g/v-deo.html
It would be haunting if it was insinuating an answer but it’s more contemplative and believes nothing.
@@shillian4770 wow, well said
As if to confirm this, I recall the first time I heard Gnossiene No. 1, many years ago, it was used on the soundtrack of a documentary about Emilee Sagee, a school mistress, who, in the 19th century was alleged to have been haunted by a sort of doppelganger that accompanied her and was seen by other people. This music was used to spine-tingling effect...
Music comes closest to speaking the language of the heart. Involuntary tears.
true, my friend...
Lo he descubierto atraves de una novela que me ha cautivado!!que maravilla en alguna peli la han puesto también. Tiene un algo màgica que te transporta❤
Oh so true
This man alienated all friends and family, then wrote like a genius, about what seems to me, his soul…. He was an outsider in his time and shines now as he is gone. Life of a starving artist…. That to me is immortality! He left his mark and it will live on, forever! Btw my mother taught piano and it was irrelevant to me until I heard Erik. Also my name is Erik… lmfao
Klara Kormendi plays Satie so beautifully- her interpretations are exquisite.
Nem is tudtam, hogy a Világnak van egy ilyen különös, varázslatos, félreeső Helye ahová Satie mester elkísért most engem. Oly szerencsés vagyok, hogy e Különös Varázsló ilyen szeretettel hajlandó felfedni e bűvöletes hely Titkait. Ilyen nyíltsággal és Őszintén. Köszönöm...Köszönöm...
great way of expressing your feelings about his music. I totally agree with you, eventhough i cannot understand hungarian language!! Only Szia ;)
Love Satie! He takes me away to the late 1800s every time I listen him. Strange to think he was disliked by so many... I think he's amazing
Sitting here driving through the hectic streets of Cairo, listening to this in my headphones. I can hear the loud beeps of the thousands of cars around me, watching women try to sell tissues in the streets to make a living. I watch as the old fashioned boats sail down the Nile, full of families, newly Weds and couples. I remember how Egypt has captured my soul despite it's hectic, crazy, ways.
Greetings from Turkey, my Muslim brother.
Bon voyage!
@@omer353 I drove through Turkey in 1998 from Izmir to Antalya by myself along the southern coast road. The most hospitable people ever, amazing food, it was a trip of a lifetime. I loved the Turkish music. The call to prayer at the mosques stirred me also. Very beautiful
You sound magical.....
sitting here this morning listening to this, and watching the sun rise i feel free, i feel anything is possible.
I would love to watch a 2 hour documentary about the first track .. I want someone to unpack every note and every meaning behind it, it's so full of life secrets I can tell.
You’d be watching some pre USA black and white Polaroid reel of clips, of really suspicious looking men in suits around the globe setting up the world as we know it today. Science, business, land, law and division. Spies behind enemy lines and star crossed lovers with hope in their eyes. Without a doubt the story would have a tragic end.
A melancholic story indeed..
@@AD-po7ok All to true I’m afraid
@@AD-po7ok I had no idea what I would see until you outlined it for me
It's not 2hours long however ... ua-cam.com/video/1VQFi7vDAjk/v-deo.html
No 1 is the most beautiful piece.
It tells a story on its own.
No. 1 is my favourite too. It is sad and mysterious.
No. 1 is my fav too frfr. Almost like you sing a great song to it.
N1 is not from this world.....
No 1 is actually the first piece I ever learnt entirely. It has a special place in my heart
I once shared a house with a couple who only listened to classical music when I only listened to rock , this piece really stuck with me
French people are known for their unusual interests which are engraved in their artistic works too and it always somehow works out so well for them. Erik Satie is one of the best examples of an exceptional person, so is his great music!
Satie était une personne "inhabituelle". Sa musique est "inhabituelle". Et cela d'une façon extrême. Mais le miracle, parce que c'est un vraiment un miracle, ou un mystère, c'est que cette musique entre chez vous et c'est comme si vous la connaissiez de toute éternité...
Bienvenue au club!
Omelette du fromage.
have you ever been to sarcelles?
wait until you discover finland
If existential philosophy had a sound track this would be it...
Balancing between life and death, not sure where a human mind's place really is...
@@igorbatko7230 it lies between spaces, locked in self observation, without the power to act in it.
Mabey a Human Paradoxx(?).
Soo Beautiful Piece.
//Juno Reactor.
If
Comment of the century
I feel like an entire psychological thriller film can be written to this as the soundtrack.
agreed.
More like a psychological murder thriller. THAT would be top-notvh
Many film play this song... Thé last what i sée..,.
Love...😉
The intro scene or just a scene set to the music should be the main character narrating something Satie wrote in his "Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1912)" because that is some serial killer shit:
“My only nourishment consists of food that is white: eggs, sugar, shredded bones, the fat of dead animals, veal, salt, coconuts, chicken cooked in white water, moldy fruit, rice, turnips, sausages in camphor, pastry, cheese (white varieties), cotton salad, and certain kinds of fish (without their skin). I boil my wine and drink it cold mixed with the juice of the Fuchsia. I have a good appetite, but never talk when eating for fear of strangling myself.”
Have you watched “painted veil”?
J'ai des souvenirs de journées chaudes d'été sur ces musiques. Quand la chaleur est écrasante, que les rideaux se gonflent dans le vent et que j'agonise de mélancolie sur mon lit d'adolescente. La musique d'Éric Satie est une très bonne compagnie.
Ymmärrän hyvin tunteesi, yritä jaksaa, jos haluat, voin vaihtaa ajatuksia kanssasi.
I feel this so much!
“Everybody offers to buy one a drink; but nobody ever dreams of buying one a sandwich.”
― Erik Satie
Wat
"Always wipe one extra time just to be sure"
- Erik Satie
@@matthansen758 lmao but he is for real Satie really said that
"It's better to piss in the shower than to bathe in piss."
-Neil Armstrong, 2017
"I'd rather survive by drinking diarrhea than having to bite off solid chunks of meaty turd"
- John F. Kennedy
some things are so beautiful it is hard to express how beautiful and sublime they are. this is one of those things
I think that's why dancers love his music so much--no words necessary.
It’s just fucking music
@@objectivitycave11 says the self just ified a hole LOL
Its been 2 years. I'm wondering if u still know about this. ✨
Some of the most beautiful and inexplicable music written.
Such a cold intensity.
Dark and lovely.
Thanks
A cloak of mystery and melancholy..Delicious.
all these big musicians have offered so much to the whole humanity until it vanishes. Even if hundreds or thousand years later we are robot-like, music like this will be the connection with people's souls and nature
You are so right
It does help me to calm down and focus on studying ( finishing bachelor degree at fourty ..) at night whilst being a mother and working full time..... absolutely beautiful music
Good luck!
Congratulations on your achievement and listen to this
Mozart Lacrimosa
Chopin Nocturne
I did my BA in my 40's loved it, and I adore erik satie
Good luck
Thank you ❤️
اعتبره علاج روحي
My partner and I were haunted by Satie's music. I had this played at his cremation in June this year, now the music doubly haunts me. It is ethereal
Sorry for your loss 🕊 great taste in music though 🎶
Sorry for your loss. I pray for their soul.
This was playing nonstop in my head this morning in a car while it was rainy, so here I am.
Funny, this piece always reminds me of rainy February nights, which is when I first listened to it, and I was alone.
This music is so powerful it scares me when I’m alone
Fr especially your first time like me
it scares me too
I only ever listen to it when I'm alone. Nobody else I know would like it at all. Yes, it is powerful but the power excites me, especially Gnossienne 3 at 4:48. It's an itch inside the head that can't be scratched, that would be a crime to scratch, because the itch itself is therapeutic.
@@John-nr6gg one must ask, were you on any drugs at the time of this writing?
@@kite4792 Only coffee. I'm sorry that you don't get it.
Popularity and fascinstion of Satie‘s music has an eternal life
Our lives is fleeting and lasting less than100 years.
Howevr,
Satie‘s these music will transcend time and space and races of people and Various religion
When it's a drizzly November in my soul, I listen to Satie.
I never thought I’d ever have a favorite music composer until I first heard Gnossienne #1 and gymnopedie #1
Never too late to discover the best😊👍🎄🎁💝🌸🎀
The 5th Gnossienne sounds happy and melancholic at the same time. Only great composers like Satiè can achieve something like that.
This year is 2024, the year is almost over, is anyone still listening?
Yeah learning n.3 and more After this shit hit so hard
Yeah, right there with you, see you in 25, peace from Melbourne Aus
Hehehe🎉
Me. Learning G1 on the Accordion.
Me
There is a huge ocean of music out there. Don't sit on the shoreline just dipping your toe in. Dive deep and explore. Only way you'll discover the beauty and mystery of Satie. Played his works learning the piano as a child. Still confuses me how his mind could compose such enigmatic pieces.
The gift of creativity has blessed Satie maybe it cursed him too like it does so many others…
not an ocean, but an entire universe, it constantly amazes me, it never ends, if I had a thousand years, I would not have explored half of it. I have dove in head first, and it has changed my life
Dear satie, i know you don't like people listening to your music, but it's the only thing that i can even enjoy a little now that I've had my heart ripped from my chest
I love Erick Satie, much love from Russia, one of my favourite composer! i remember passing by a narrow passage somewhere in Paris listening to this pice of art, i listen to this everytime i read, Merci !
Волшебная, магическая, чувственная и таинственная музыка! Чудо!
I came here after listening to this mysterious melody while watching The Queen's Gambit show. This is something beyond this world's time and space.
Nah it seems that way because its from a time when people werent yet turned into soulless zombies by technology and brainwashing.
Clear Chopin influence. Mellifluous and Melancholic. Legendary.
France is lucky to have some masterpieces like theses : ,Gnossienne and Gymnopédie by Erik Satie, Claire de Lune by Debussy and J’y suis jamais allé, La valse d’Amélie, Comptine d’un autre été… by Yann Tiersen and so on… We are all, French people, proud of them ❤
Bashung, Gainsbourg, Manset, Murat...
Francia segundo
Listen to Porz Goret by Yann Tiersen.
N'oubliez pas la génie de Françous Coupérin ! Les barricades mystérieuses, par exemple. Mon compositeur préféré de votre pays est Guillaume de Machaut.
You also have Maurice Ravel.
“I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.”
― Erik Satie
@silverbud counter point works with the right music, Erik had complexity in simplicity
funny
@@Flawlesslaughter Exactly. Just came in off Scriabin sonata 5, and it's insane how Satie holds up doing comparatively so little. He just nailed the formula for getting the most out of something simple.
@Flawless
... And simplicity is hard.
I've been enthralled by Satie since first hearing his music 60 years ago. I have had, over this time, a number of recordings of his work. I am particularly enamored with the interpretations of Hungarian pianist Klara Kormendi and am delighted to see her here on UA-cam. Her renditions of Satie are, for me, perfection.
Kormendi's playing is truly heavenly!
Satie is werkelijk een moderne klassieke musicus met fantastisch rustgevende muziek
J’adore sa musique, elle m’apaise, me donne un bonheur intérieur incommensurable, dans ce monde de brutes que nous traversons...
LE MONDE A TOUJOURS ÉTÉ BRUTE
LA VIE EST UN DRAME
PAR MANIPULATION ET CONTRÔLE UN MAL ENTENDU A DONNER NAISSANCE AUX HUMAINS ET UNE POIGNÉE D ORGUEILLEUX C EST EMPARÉ DU BONHEUR ET NOUS LAISSE LA PEINE ET LA TRISTESSE
It took me forever to find this piece. And when I say forever i'm talking about elementary school library music times. I just turned 24 and Can assure you that this is my favorite piano piece EVER. So many unstable emotions. Happy to have found you again!
^^
My heart is exploding into a million silent pieces...Beautiful
énorme, prenant, intemporel, profond, sincère, délicieux, puissant, doux, énergique, , génial, le meilleur de nous!!
You forgot ethereal
my friend ❤
Erik Satie ce génie de la musique de son temps, nous raconte à travers cette musique l'époque qu'il a vécue. Tout simplement!
The man was a genius.
J'adore tout simplement, tout grandement, tout éternellement
Je ne peux être que d’accord avec vous! Magnifique, intemporel .....
splendide...un baume pour une âme confinée ...et un brin d'espoir?
Bonjour à vous camarades français 🇫🇷. Que la musique puisse redonner corps et âme à notre bonne vieille patrie ...
quanto mi piacerebbe saper parlare bene il francese!
@@georgestark5059 A moi aussi.
Mysterieusement hors du temps(...)
Tellement profond, voir spirituel.
Magnifique n'est pas le mot que j'aimerais poser.
Bravo à l'interprète qui retranscrit parfaitement cette œuvre de Satie, les emotions cachées et quelques secrets qu'il a laissé dans ces Gnossiennes...
Les parties 1 et 3 sont l'acmé du spleen et de la sensibilité au sens large.
No. 5 is just about the happiest thing that happens to my ears.
Esa pieza es tan hermosa y perfecta. Me fulminó, es indescriptible, para mi también ha sido de las cosas mas felices que le han podido pasar a mis oídos.
@@hectoremanuelcorona4253 right? When I die I hope they play it at my memorial service
I'm a classical ignoramus but this has always captivated me.
I don't have the musical vocabulary to say why but it's note timing and note progression always seems to surprise my tiny brain, no matter how many times I listen to it! It's endlessly refreshing.
Maybe one day I'll find a documentary that'll explain just what kind of musical trickery Satie is pulling on me!
Satie was very eccentric and modern, his music was both controversial and ahead of its time, leaning to concepts that are used in modern music, like polytonalism.
Adam Neely has a great video on polytonal music, that mentions some of Satie's work.
Weird history has a 10 min documentary on Satie as a person, his work and his life
The music is also composed in Free Time, as opposed to any sort of specific time signature. This lends it a "flowing" kind of feel.
I studied music theory for many years, so I could probably write an essay about it if I tried. But I'd much prefer to be able to play it well.
The tricks name is GNOSIS... he plays for our old and intimate Real Soul. Search for Gnosis.
Satie has one of the truest understandings of pain and love. His work just rips that pit feeling right out of you and exposes it and ironically makes it something to cherish. Through pain we find beauty and that's what I love about him.
Hope I don't sound too pretentious here, but these pieces really invokes quite delicate impressions: something like a soothing pain or a nostalgia for something you never actually experienced...
I love Gnossienne No.5 for some reason, I just love the way it presents a happy joyful composition with a melancholic undertone.
we all here praise Erik and his brilliance and forget about the perfection of the pianist.
This pianist is playing these pieces much too fast in my opinion. No need on earth to sprint headlong through these.
@@marcbriggs2766 Satie wouldn't agree with you. He didn't play the pieces all that slowly himself.
@@tradewins The pianist has to respond to the composer's instructions. I'll leave it at that.
This masterpiece surprisingly keeps in both simplicity and sophistication at the same level.
I love my music, I love what I listen to (electronic, dub, soul, funk, most things) but I sometimes listen to an older guy like Satie and it's like damn..have we really got better at music since the 18th or 19th century? His music is just timeless, so perfectly conceived.. He obviously had the skill to write complex music but chose to be understated, he understood the poignancy of simplicity. I know the word 'master' is widely overused but I feel it fits with him, there is nothing you could add or take away to improve his music. He's like a very articulate writer that knows how to choose the right words to say exactly what he wants in it's purest form.
The first will always be my favorite....
Same
Tough choice between the first or third
is too fast
@@NemaXOFICIAL this interpretation is. listen to someone else play it, you'll love it
@@HashinItOutt yeah i like the version from joao paulo santos
This music is so beautiful it brings tears to my eyes.
I wonder if he had tears while composing
bros crying
Magnifique !
Quelle pureté, quelle délicatesse
Ça donne beaucoup d'émotions : joie, tristesse, sentiment de beauté absolu...
Her dinlediğimde derin bir ah çekip dalıp giderim uzaklara, üstelik üzgün olmam da gerekmiyor.
Bana sessiz de çığlık atılabileceğini öğretti bu parça. 1:27
….. my funeral piece of music!
“Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts.” Tennessee Williams.
@s S=One who would put themselves above possible lessons to be learned
I find Gnossienne No. 3 one of the saddest melodies I have ever heard.
Satie is a genius composer.
@@nom_de_guerre_ Lent means "slow" in French
Ce n'est pas de la tristesse mais de la mélancolie.
agreed
It is very melancholic but so beautiful!
I agree!
Many times I have been to funerals and some make those comments about 'away with melancholy'. Some of the most pivotal moments in my life have involved a lot of melancholy. Lots of Satie's music is the state of melancholy or deep reflection that is often sad. When I go to a funeral of a special person I feel melancholy and actually like it, I miss them and want to feel sad. Sad to me is a place you go to when you feel deeply about someone or something, it makes me feel rich inside and totally appreciative of someone I miss. To want to change that into a false happiness is for others. I dont see it as a negative state but an aware one where my best poetry comes from. It takes me to my centre where I can draw upon a deep well of fresh cool inspiration.
Какое умиротворение, какое наслаждение от музыки под шум волн, сидя возле Средиземного. Браво!
This music makes an image in my brain that I’m in an endless library that holds all the information in the universe wandering for all eternity driven mad that by all of knowledge I cannot comprehend
I was once offered all there is to know in the universe in some sort of a dream, but that much knowledge in a split second, including all the future horrors in my life was just too much to bear, too overwhelming and made me recoil backwards, like when opening the lid on a sewer and inhaling the stench too deeply. So now I know all but not fully conscious. Still wondering what it was for and what would have happened if continued to look into this endless library?
sounds like borges' library
@@ricknasher6227 drugs amirite
apparently meditation will eventually help you get there naturally
So calming, perfect choice when lock down at home because of heavy rain outside.
and by "heavy rain" you meant "coronavirus" right?
@@3tilalqol I listened to this music to try and forget about the virus, but hey here it is XD
Forza Italia. We can pull through this together.
I love this music and I'm using it to write!
🌟
La musique de satie etait le generique de l emission de gonzague st bris : la ligne ouverte , le soir sur europe 1 vers les annees 78 , 79 .
Music that will live forever.
This somehow settles my anxiety attacks everytime. I love it.
bana da çok iyi geliyor
Akın Yaman Altın sende de mi kaygı bozukluğu var? bir de ona sınav stresini ekle sen 😓
@@RawDoggin_78 evet knk bende de var. Ugrasiyoruz iste, klasik muzik ve arkadaslarim bu sıkıntılarimdan kacmamin tek yolu oldu. Bi de sinav stresini dusunemiyorum. Allah yardimcin olsun kardesim.
Sınav stresinden kurtulmak için dinliyorum ben de. Aynı şekilde kaygı bozukluğum var. Seni biraz da olsun anlıyorum, cidden zor. Umarım ikimiz de kaygılarımızı aşmanın yolunu buluruz. Şans diliyorum sana.
@@yasamayadair9887 Bende de ayni sorunlar var ve hic merak etme zamanla daha iyi oluyorsun. Şu an kendimi daha iyi hissediyorum eski halimden. Geçicek bunlar merak etme.
I love the emotion in Erik Satie’s music. Absolutely beautiful
Merci à la pianiste Klára Körmendi de nous avoir donné certainement la meilleur interprétation de ces gnossiennes, voilà plus de deux ans que j’essaye désespérément d’avoir le même touché qu’elle, les sonorités sont parfaites, chaque annotation loufoque de Satie est respectée!
C'est la plus belle et plus juste interprétation des gnossiennes pour moi, Klara est habitée par l'esprit d'Eric Satie.