Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/26/unheard-works-by-erik-satie-to-premiere-100-years-after-his-death

97•gripewater•4h ago

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kaonwarb•3h ago

I assume these are well-vetted as real discoveries, but can't help but think of "Albinoni's" Adagio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adagio_in_G_minor

Still looking forward to listening!

eitally•3h ago

Satie's Gymnopedies have been on our household's "calming & focused" playlists for years now. Highly recommend, and I look forward to hearing these new works, too.

TZubiri•3h ago

Did you perchance find these originally on youtube? They're very popular on their autosuggestions.

jiehong•2h ago

They’ve been a bit everywhere for decades I think. Like I think in movies such as The Royal Tenenbaums of Wes Anderson.

I think I heard it more or less since childhood.

viraptor•2h ago

It got very popular with the raise of lofi. The Gymnopedie samples are everywhere.

williamdclt•2h ago

They’re hugely famous, I don’t think most people’s first encounter with them would be as YouTube suggestions

andrepd•1h ago

Indeed, they feature in a number of media. I think I first heard them in the Mother 3 game!

ithkuil•1h ago

There are a lot of interpretations of Satie's work and a random playlist on YouTube may not necessarily get you the best performers, also because not everybody has the same tastes in music.

My favourite interpretation of Satie's is played by Reinbert de Leeuw. He plays very slow, playing just a bit behind the beat, with astonishing precision and expressiveness.

garciansmith•1h ago

Yes, I agree. I also like Aki Takahashi.

zahlman•1h ago

I have three different recordings of Satie's Gymnopedies on CD from many years ago: de Leeuw's, coming in at almost 16 minutes total; a version from 1968 by William Masselos totaling about 9 minutes; and on the extreme end, Klára Körmendi's version totaling less than 7 minutes.

When I used to play piano, I once timed myself playing them to my own preference. As I recall, it was around 11 minutes at the speed that makes sense to me.

Chacun a son gout. (Satie himself claimed to only eat foods that are white, after all.)

RhysU•2h ago

A Strangeloop talk by Mouse Reeve, years ago, looked at the Markovian structure of "Gnossiennes" then made an endless version. A beautiful talk and really cool music website.

Music website: https://gnossiennes.mousereeve.com/ (slightly better on Desktop).

Talk: https://youtu.be/ANYMii3Sypg

Abstract: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2019/minimalist-piano-forever...

lordfrito•2m ago

I love this. Thank you.

matt3210•2h ago

It’s AI

madaxe_again•2h ago

This may come as a shock, but there was no AI in 19th century France.

reify•2h ago

my go to chill out music for the past 10 years

I highly recommend

Eric Satie's complete piano works on 2 x CD

has all the music from this wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Erik_S...

I tried to play some of these on classical guitar and failed dismally.

aduffy•1h ago

Major Hari Seldon vibes

emeril•1h ago

I'm still waiting to hear 4'33" by John Cage and it's allegedly very popular

crabl•51m ago

Ian Penman wrote a fantastic biography of Satie, published earlier this year. Worth a read! He was a profoundly strange and fascinating person: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781635902532/erik-satie-three-piec...

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