In his own words...
A true musician "grows in wisdom...
He is brilliant...
He learns to do without and is prepared to make great sacrifices...
enormous sacrifices...
if I may say...
His energy is tremendous...
In other words he is prepared for the struggle...
and with honesty he shall fight it...
The performance of an Art demands complete self-denial...
...It was not meant as a joke what I just said...
about sacrifices...
The Music makes heavy demands upon those who want to devote themselves in it...
This is what I have wanted you to call your attention to...
A true musician must subordinate himself to his Art;
...he must place himself above human suffering;
..he must draw courage from within
...and only from within."
Erik Satie
Satie is pronounced: “sah-tee”
“ GYMNOPEDIE”
is a composed word which Satie derivated
from two ancient Greek words:
is a composed word which Satie derivated
from two ancient Greek words:
"gymnasion"= school for gymnastics and, by
extension, school for boys and girls
"paidos"= child, boy
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SATIE QUOTE:
"I have
never written a note I didn't mean."
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SATIE QUOTE:
"I was tired of being reproached with an ignorance of which I
thought I must be guilty, since competent people pointed it out in my
works."
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SATIE QUOTE:
“Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.”
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SATIE QUOTE:
“I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.”
SATIE QUOTE:
"My dream is to be played everywhere, not only at the Opera."
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Noted for his early 20th century Parisian avant-garde, experimental style;
eccentric and economical.
eccentric and economical.
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Satie was lauded as a forerunner of modern music;
a precursor to later
artistic movements
such as minimalism, repetitive music,
such as minimalism, repetitive music,
and the Theatre of the
Absurd.
VIDEO OF GYMNOPEDIE #1 WITH THE ART OF RENE MAGRITTE
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Drawing of Satie by Pablo Picasso
Self portrait by Satie
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He was a French composer and pianist.
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His mostly short piano works are
spare and
unconventional.
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He was the quintessential "artist's
artist,"
a man who, as one critic wrote,
"had the no-doubt gratifying
sensation of seeing
the times catch up with him."
This is the background music to the melody.
SATIE LINKS
