Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 1 

this piece made me discover a whole new feeling that is still unknown to me

kinda feels like you finally found your answer but it wasnt the one you were expecting

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 !

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

You're the first person I've heard who's not rushing through this piece. Thanks!

I’m gonna learn to play this on my own piano over quarantine, wish me luck.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

This piece is kind of having a mystery... i remember those movies scene with this kind of background...

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. 👌👌👌

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! ❤️

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.

One of my favourite piece ever. Thanks my friend

spent my entire life looking for this smh one of the best and most underrated piano pieces

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.

The universe is singing to me!!!

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.

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.

Bu eseri dinlemekten daha güzel bir şey varsa oda bu eseri çalmaktır.

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

You're opening my eyes to a whole new world of compositions 🎹🎹🎹 Your timing is 🔥

so haunting and beautiful The agony of the soul painted in music.

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 RU-vid. It was Gnossienne No. 1.

Bu şarkı beni henüz bilmediğim bambaşka yerlere götürdü.. tarifsiz duygular içindeyim.

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!

Am I the only one who thinks his tempo is amazing and plays along to it? 😅

I could listen to this song over and over and over and over ...

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 feel sad... I feel good... I feel something when I listen this masterpiece

I can’t stop rewatching this. Gorgeous, evoking piece. Thank 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.

I _love_ it. Best version of this piece I could find on YT. Awesome job!

The tune is so minimalistic but has this unnatural beauty around it. Amazing!!!

Everytime I play your videos Jack my parrot stops and just watches

Satie has all of these haunting melodies ... some invoke various moods, others thought provoking and melancholy contemplation !!!

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)!

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 was the first piano piece I had ever learned/played to completion, and this is the one video that gave me inspiration

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.

I've heard this piece countless times and always get the same feeling... the most uncomfortable comfort I've ever experienced.

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.

Oh how I love this melody

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!

My soul has found peace

WHAT IS THAT MELODY!?!

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.

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...

WHAT IS THAT MELODY

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.

Love this one ...thank you for choosing it ...a lovely rendition ...very passionate 🙏🌹🎹

This is the most brilliant piece I've ever heard

I m overwhelmed. One of my best pieces. Sensual playing, thumb up

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 !

i love how each key goes on fire at the end of your finger tips , makes it powerful

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!!

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..

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.

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.

That feeling, when you have that memory you never had. That's what I feel

Sen, beni asla, asla tanımayan, bir su birikintisinin yanından geçercesine yanımdan geçip giden, bir taşa basarcasına üstüme basan, hep, ama hep yoluna devam eden ve beni sonsuz bir bekleyiş içerisinde bırakan sen, kimsin ki benim için?... - Stefan ZWEIG

I came upon this melancholic masterpiece in the movie Chocolat and listen to it frequently. My favorite performance is by pascal rogè.

WHAT IS THAT MELODY?!

Never heard this piece but I loved it just after few seconds. It gives me the vibessss. Also nice work.

I swear every other version I've heard is rushing through it. This is the first version I've heard that actually breathes.

THIS IS HEAVEN TO EARS 💖

Piyono ve keman çalan insanları çok seviyorum.Seni farklı diyarlara götürebilen özel insanlardır.

I'm from Queen's Gambit 😍

WHAT IS THAT MELODY?!??!

WHAT IS THAT MELODY?!?!?

Finally i found the version with the perfect tempo.

A perfect piece for my mood today. Wonderful playing 🌹

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

This is just wonderful. You played it beautifully. Love it ❤

Beautiful, thank you.

currently learnin this piece right now, really beautiful

you have enchanted me with your interpretation, it's magical ✨

0:58-1:17 Best part in the symphony ♥️

This is one of the first pieces that I learned, still one of my favorites

its so beautiful and so...mysterious.

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

WHAT IS THIS MELODY!

this is an absolutely beautiful piece of piano music, one of the best, performed verry well may I add. Happy New-Year! Best Wishes for 2022!!

tekrar tekrar çalıyorum bu parçayı huzur veriyor ve çalarken dünyadan kopuyorum

A very haunting and melancholy piece. Wonderful!

Amazing perfomance! I actually learned this piece recently

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!

A very simple yet elegant piece. It delights the audience

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...

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

Spectacular! Bravo!

Every time I just feel like wandering by myself, this is the perfect soundtrack

Not only the tuto is helpful, but mainly your interpretation is one of the best I've heard. You wonderfuly feel how and when to slow the pace. Thank you.