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“The Gymnopédies”, also known as “Trois Gymnopédies”, are three piano compositions written by French composer and pianist Erik Satie. Though the origin or reasoning behind their name is not clear, most sources point to the pianist taking inspiration from the poem of the same name.
Slanting and shadow-cutting a bursting stream
Trickled in gusts of gold on the shiny flagstone
Where the amber atoms in the fire gleaming
Mingled their sarabande with the Gymnopaedia.The Gymnopédies may seem like the height of refined relaxation today, but in their time they were deeply subversive. They defied classical harmonies and structures, in keeping with the composer's generally iconoclastic spirit. Due to this, multiple versions of three pieces can be found, though the original thought and emotions that these conveyed doesn’t seem to change from adaptation to adaptation.