Erik Satie - Gnossiennes 1-5 (3 hour loop) 

Does anyone else find it hauntingly beautiful?

I'll share something. I know very little about composing and composers. I can only say that when my wife of 38 years passed away recently, I had to change the alarm setting on my smartphone....because the morning she died, it's what woke me up so I could provide her next dose of medicine. She passed away the moment it went off. It's been a little more than An otherwise pleasant collection of notes to awaken to, it never failed to remind me of that morning. I had to change it. About a week ago I sat on my bed and went through every selection searching for an alternate and chose "Erik Satie Gymnopedie" for the alarm and my ringtone. It is his first of the three compositions, Lent et Douloureux, which translated means "slow and painful." Appropriate, since the music and its title have matched my state of mind ever since. And I wish this experience on no one....not even my worst enemy.

for work for focus, for a wine, for love, for just contemplating... always Satie .

When I heard Gnossienne No. 1 for the first time, it felt like 1885 and the streets were foggy and damp. This tune was ahead of its time and has influenced so many musicians, the fact Satie was an eccentric also showed he was not able to express himself in his own time, born out of time as are all geneiuses...this particular piece is saying farewell as we all must do

When I heard Gnossienne No. 1 for the first time, I basically unlocked a new emotion/feeling.

Impressionism, decadent verse, Gnossiennes... All portray an emotion I have been living with in the past year and a half: the longing to be left alone to contemplate. There is so much to see and so much to read, yet so little time, and people seemingly always come up with a way to pull you back into the hustle and bustle of daily life. If you are also seeking an escape from mundaneness and searching for beauty, then I am not alone

what a palette of emotions his music offers. Calming yet uneasy, mystic and even a bit sinistre. just perfect for introverts :))

Erik Satie’s music touches something in me that other music does not. It’s haunting but familiar at the same time. Love it !

Each note breaks my heart and the next one mends it. The motif is asking an unanswerable questions at all times. This song has been a part of my life since I was a child. Satie, I have played a lot of his music .Gymnopedies.. Brava to everlasting passions in music. If I were not a musician I probably wouldn’t be here still. It is the most divine place to hang out if you know what I mean and I know you do if you play an instrument also. I spend every night of my life at the piano practicing. It’s what I do it’s where I live it’s my passion. I don’t care if anyone hears my music it’s the journey the finished product. And then the finished product is about as high as I can get in this life. Happy new year! Play lots of music lots and lots and lots and lots and lots for yourself and for the world. It makes it a softer place to be

This was my father's most beloved music. Today would be his 86° birthday, but we lost him 20 days ago. Still hurts like hell, but this music brings a bit of him back, even if it's just for today

This music was composed in 1890, I think it was futurist and ahead of its time, it's mystic and psychedelic. This music was invented for movies before the invention of cinema.

Thank you 🙏 Noticing that more than 1.8 million people have ‘viewed’ this video to date is heartwarming.

When I hear Satie, it provokes an inner contemplation: what did I accomplish, who loved me, who did I love, who really knows me, am I truly honest with myself, how long will I be remembered?

INTERESTING. Based on the artwork displayed in the video, it appears I am not the only person who, when hearing Satie, feels transported to a rather shaded, cool room with the curtains drawn, a late march rain soaking the world outside just before the trees begin sprouting their first buds. The gently bittersweet melancholy of the music is profound.

【에릭사티, 그노시엔느】 No.1 00:00 No.2 03:32 No.3 05:38 No.4 08:18 No.5 10:32

I am only 4 years old and 7 months and I am glad that such music exists to guide me all my life. I will need it for sure

This is the bridge to connect with the other world, Thank you.

Timeless. Makes me want to lay on the floor in a pool of sunlight and enjoy dust drifting along.

Can't thank you enough for this! I thought I was crazy for wanting to listen to Satie on repeat for hours. Now I know that I'm not the only one.

As a child I head this music in my favorite movie. I searched for 3 years then heard it on the radio late at night traveling and knew it immediately since I had seen the movie many times. I stopped the car on a lonely highway and a miracle occurred, they said who the artist was and began to cry like a child in complete happiness. The movie is Being There with Peter Sellers. I will forever have a special relationship with this beautiful music.

Gnossiennes - a moment of awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life, and somewhere in the hallways of their personality is a door locked from the inside, a stairway leading to a wing of the house that you’ve never fully explored-an unfinished attic that will remain maddeningly unknowable to you, because ultimately neither of you has a map, or a master key, or any way of knowing exactly where you stand.

When I watched the movie The Unpainted Veil, where this music is played, something happened in my mind. I wasn't joyful but extremely melancholic. Then, I saw my mother's face, dying at 31. This is spiritual music. OMG. The deep, soft, relaxaing sounds, the spectacular views. I'll die to listen to it personally. Sometimes, love hurts. 💖

The beauty of this composition is endless...

I have loved Gnossiennes for years. I just can't get enough of where it takes me. The ups and downs of crescendos and then a pause. Erik Satie takes you to a place that is one that you want to stay in.

Always makes me feel like I've always known this, from a long, long, time ago...

they are reminding me of beautiful and fond memory that I've never had before...

I first heard Satie in the movie The Painted Veil. I’m grateful for finding Satie here. Thank you for sharing this lovely music ❤️.

This masterpiece gave me the key to opening the gate for a new level of consciousness, something mysterious, and at the same time revealing.

Satie is one of the most amazing classical composers I've ever been moved by. It's so heavy and beautiful. Dramatic and emotionally-stirring. I'm not sure why. It brings out the feels.

i always look for satie compilation to listen to when i'm doing academic stuff. this helps a lot.

I studied piano for many years, from 5 to 20 years old. But I'd never heard Satie until I bought an LP of Blood Sweat and Tears in the late 60s. The first short track was Gymnopedies. I bought sheet music that day. And just now my husband (who is not even close to being a classical fan just popped into my office, "Who's this? It's soothing and beautiful". Every human can hear this and be moved. Peace.

It is a magnificent Spring day and I’m laying on a floral beach towel in my side yard. The bright green leaves have just popped out on the trees and the sunny daffodils and purple irises have burst forth. A tray of fresh lemonade and Satie’s music accompany a pink plate of fresh fruit and vegetables under egg salad and avocado on rye. A Robin has laid her aqua eggs in a snug nest within the rhododendron beside me. A soft breeze gently whispers that today is a day to rejoice and reflect. Slowly I savor each bite, each sight, each sound. To lay down and soak up the energy from the warmed earth and rays in a puffy clouded sky make me feel the exquisite dance of life these Gnossiennes sing of and I bow in thankfulness.

Music to dive into oneself... and reflect, forgive, forget and remember.

I don't listen to music much anymore,it has quite a powerful emotional effect upon me. That said I have never gone out of my way to listen to Mr Satie's contributions to my ever growing list of evocative, coordinated sound - scapes . Whenever I find myself within earshot I feel I am being confronted by an old friend whose presence I can't imagine having gone without and too soon gone, as though forever. Apologies for what may seem a somewhat exaggerated view, non the less it is genuine.

this is perfect for staring out of a window into a rainy day sipping hot cinnamon wine and slipping slowly into that soothing melancholic feeling of happy sadness❤️

All of these pieces bring out distinctly different emotions in me. Satie is incredible. Gnossienne 1 has got to be my favourite, though. It’s calming in a slightly somber way, but the tune is also mildly hopeful… I’m not sure if I’m making sense, though.

Idk why but after listening to this you can’t listen to any other music as this holds you back to listen to it again and again every time.

I don't like the piano.. But when I hear Erik Satie. It touches the heart, then there after I think of the piano as a magical instrument. Erik Satie makes it magical...

this is such a gem of a piece

Un voyage dans l'intime absolu...on l'écoute un temps, sans durée, toujours recommencé, et toujours surpris, émerveillé , de jour , et puis les nuits, longtemps...MERVEILLEUX!

Excellent music, while I read Edgar Allan Poe!

A simple, genuine and great music from a genius👍👏 Thank you Erik Satie, you're still alive with your epic work 🙏💐

Erik Satie fait naître des émotions subtiles mêlant le chaud et le froid, le passé et le présent ; un pur régal !

Tenho 70 anos. A primeira vez que ouvi sua música foi aos 17 anos e me encantei! Até hoje. Amo Eric Satie!

I close my eyes and go somewhere else. The first piece does something to my soul

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.

His music is very soothing, meditative spooky ,Trance-like dreamy quality to it . Satie's music casts a magical spell on its listeners, me included .

So deep__so beautiful to listen to while lying under a tree, in the afternoon, in spring and summer. I swear, if I had a house with a small piece of property, I would have high-quality speakers set up outside and play this so I could enjoy it while in my gardens. That is a simple dream of mine. 🙏😇✨💫🌱🌿🌻🐝🌳🌎💖🙌😺

I never get tired of listen to this.

This brings me soo much peace. And i don't know why or how but dear lord did i NEED it

I dont want to ever stop listening to this.

Music such as this, can express and touch us where words may fail. This is balm for our humanness & spirits. Thank you.

I could feel my soul dance in this kind of music.

Ohh my goodness I absolutely love this. Im a music buff but where has this been all of my 40 years? Oh thank you for sharing this. My heart💕

I hear everyone speaking or referring to the same thing…. Some type of innate nostalgia. Very cool we can all feel that. 💜

When I went thru the deepest pain in my life I listened to this and rode it out and somehow it helped

Magnifique, poétique, planant, génial.

Without music life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche ...........thanks for sharing

Satie, the man, the myth, the legend. I can't get enough of this!

Gnossiene #5 is a remarkably optimistic and merry piece of music, great contrast with #4. It's like the sun reappearing behind the clouds on a rainy winter's day.

It’s so amazing how this music can take my mind into another place. A place where I feel safe but I also can’t help imagining I’m in a old and haunted castle with a rusty piano and lots of leaves. 🍃

Erik Satie et sa contribution incroyable pour l'âme humaine. De l'émotion à l'état pure.

I concur with all the conclusions being concluded concerning Eric Satie. I get in the zone doing my art to his music, and that is timeless!

Thank you for posting this. I'm very ignorant about this type of music and never heard this composition before.

I do not mean to minimize the greatness of Satie by saying this compilation is good for anyone who has difficulty falling asleep. Not only is the music very good, but it’s also very practical.

Perfect background music for my study!

I find myself nodding my head in agreement, as if I stand under the language being Spoken. Thank you for sharing this. My life will be different now.

Absolutely... it was like journey into one of my past lives 🤍

I was forced to take piano lessons as a kid, had they tried to teach me this I might have took more notice.

this music has something in it, brings me back to it again and again...

I had this music stuck in my head for weeks, and I couldn’t figure out what it was from. Finally a character in a movie played it on her record player. I looked the movie up on IMDB and scrolled the soundtrack. After that I’ve listened to this recording dozens and dozens of times. It’s so soothing and beautiful. Great to go to sleep by but also during work (like now). Thank you for posting this wonderful music.

This speaks to my soul in a way that is so familiar. A part of who I am. What I am. I identify with the vibrations of this sound so very intently. It's like coming home. Monica

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These songs are so alive. Especially 1, 4 and 5. He's giving out and expressing his inner stories or conversations. We play Satie in our home weekly. It's background to ours and our cats lives and we all love it. (along with Keith Jarrett, Miles, Aznavour a few gospel house, jazz and others)

Erik Satie is a real artist!!! It's incredible to be so good

When you finally accept, you were alone all along.

Melancolía, nostalgia, frivolidad, alegría, tristeza y sublimidad, cada composición me hace desbloquear un nuevo recuerdo y un nuevo sentimiento mientras escucho esta obra maestra y estudio.

Someone who i didn't deserve introduced me to Erik Satie, listening to the compositions is an experience of deep, dark, sad and reflective emotions.

C'est une découverte pour moi ! J'avais jusqu'à présent un a-priori négatif pour ces "sonates". Mais 50 ans plus tard, je le DECOUVRE et que c'est bon et relaxant.

Thank you for sharing! Music that can arouse deep emotions and resonate is great. Erik did it!

From time to time, I need to play Gnossiennes to keep me sane.

I am accomplishing much of my research because of this music. I might be a physiatrist because of you!

Never heard this put half the room to sleep 😂😂 we are high af but this is actually great beautiful music found it while trying to make some people sleep because they said they wouldn’t one hit wonders 😂😂 put the heat on and this and they’re out cold 😂😂guess I won my bet 😂😂 but the few of us still standing are loving this thx for sharing new fan..I’d recommend to get high and listen to it very deep music..

stumbled across this, one minute in and i'm captivated. thank you

The only music that made me want to learn piano....

Eric Satie gave a new definition for introspection . You could not get closer to emotion expressed on the keyboard as he did.

I just wanted to share that the image you first see at 3:37 is of Erik Satie around the age of 25 - "The Bohemian (Portrait of Erik Satie in His Studio in Montmartre)", 1891, by Santiago Rusiñol. I love this upload - I listen at work all the time. So well done!

Oh Satie!, como me encaminas a mis recuerdos, algunos nostálgicos otros nebulosos y fríos, como sea a donde me lleves con tus composiciones, siento que la vida fluye por mis venas y aún vibro de la emoción reviviendo episodios pretéritos.

Satie’s music Is a panacea to heal and purify the soul, and comfortable in an ear, and inspirational

Erik Satie uno de los mas grandes, quedo inmortalizado con Gnossienne No. 1 ❤ Hoy en dia 2022 todavia habemos personas que sabemos deleitarnos con obras exquisitas como estas! ❤

Opiates for the ears. Causes bliss.

Merci beaucoup pour ce partage,cela me rappelle des souvenirs nostalgiques où il m’arrivait de jouer de temps en temps quelques pièces de ce compositeur français, toute une époque 😌

Reading Dostoevsky's 'Notes from Underground' while listening to this. I know it's not conducive but there is a consistent melancholy feel to this music that provides an amazing backdrop for such a dark read.

Absolutely beautiful and enlightening..I'm breath taken

I love the 4th. There is something sly and almost sinister about it. It's like those strange windy Autumn nights that appear so gloomy from the window, but which seem to draw you out, as if some secret pleasure was waiting for you there.

Прекрасная музыка! Очень много идей и настроений пробуждает.

This is for when it was a cold winter day and you took a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow

The power lies in the unresolved chords, which leave one with a feeling of melancholic yearning tinged with omnipresent beauty.

Beautiful music. Love the rainy paintings. Thank you.

Great music, and I really loved the background with excellent B&W impressionism!