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Composer | Satie, Erik (1866 - 1925) | ||
Instrumentation | Clarinet, piano or organ or guitar | ||
Sheet central | Gnossiennes I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII (53 sheet music) | ||
Style | Early 20th century | ||
Arranger | Dewagtere, Bernard (1958 - ) | ||
Date | 1890 | ||
Copyright | Copyright © Dewagtere, Bernard | ||
Added by bernard-dewagtere, 11 Feb 2013
"Gnossienne" is the name given to several piano pieces
by the French composer Erik Satie in the late 19th
century. Satie's coining of the word "gnossienne" was
one of the rare occasions when a composer used a new
term to indicate a new "type" of composition. Satie had
and would use many novel names for his compositions
("vexations", "croquis et agaceries" and so on).
"Ogive," for example, had been the name of an
architectural element until Satie used it as the name
for a composition, the Ogives....(+)
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