Satie Gnossiennes
Satie's six Gnossiennes were composed roughly between 1890 and 1897. The first three Gnossiennes were written without time signatures or bar lines (often referred to as "absolute time").
Satie's incidental piece Le Fils des étoiles contains a Gnossienne in the first act. This is sometimes known as the seventh Gnossienne.
Érik Satie (1866 – 1925) was a French composer and pianist, as well as a colorful figure in the early twentieth century Parisian avant-garde. He is perhaps best known for his short piano pieces, such as the Gnossiennes.
Averse to the Romanticism of Richard Wagner, he produced fascinating music of a simple, timeless, directionless, repetitious, eccentric, whimsical, satirical, and humorous nature. He was a precursor to later artistic movements such as minimalism, repetitive music, and the Theatre of the Absurd.
