John Williams - Gnossienne No.1 (Satie)

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Classical guitarist Williams interprets one of Saties series of pieces written for piano. A note on the title: Gnossienne is one of a very few occasions where a new word was coined by the composer distinctly intended to indicate a (new) type of composition. Satie had used and would use a lot of names for his compositions that never had been used to indicate a piece or type of music before: for example ogive had been the name of an architectural element until Satie used it as the name for a composition, the Ogives; similar for vexations, croquis et agaceries and so on, but gnossienne was a word that simply didnt exist before Satie used it to indicate a composition. The word gnossienne appears to be derived from the word gnosis, which doesnt appear too surprising since Satie was involved in gnostic sects and movements at the time when starting to compose Gnossiennes. However some published versions claim the word derives from Cretan Knossos or Gnossus and link the Gnossiennes to Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur myth. Images are of water reflections.

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