Erik Satie is a French musician, composer and a great pianist, from the finals of XIX century and begginings of XX. His work cannot be classified in some style or vanguard but he was ahead of time althought he enter to the conservatory at the age of 40, before of that event he worked in cabaret music. His compositions were an inspiration for some avant-gards it came after of his time and dead. His work is remembered like transgressor and sometimes grotesque, with strange names, ironic and black humor. His personality was annoying and sometimes he had weird ideas, paranoid and anger ones. He is the precursor of enviroment music. But with all this carachteristics and talent, he lived in misery and decadence.
The piece of music that you are listening right now, if you don't put paused at the music player, is called Gnossienne n°1, by this magnificent composer. The name "Gnossienne", hasn't had any meaning, is just an invented word from this serial of compositions. I don't have time to put some specific information about this score, but if you like it you can search it in wikipedia, there are more of this piano pieces called Gnossiennes.
This one is I like most, I heard it about 5 years ago with my uncle, he has a CD with his music, and I fell in love with this piece of art. I don't know exactly what I feel with it but is so romantic (not talking about love, the Romanticism), I imagine some kind of places, mistery, desperation, sadness, melancholy, ancestrals lives, other lives, undescriptible feelings and images. Is so simple and short, but when you listen to it you has and incredible journey through mistical worlds which are only in your imagination, through allegories which has sense only in our collective inconscient. Is just an oniric composition.
Your post seems to me to be interesting, the truth is that I do not know this musician. But I am going to lower his music since for what you wrote you called my attention.
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