Three Gymnopedies - Brass Quintet Sheet Music Full Score & Parts - LM013

COMPOSER : Erik Satie

ARRANGER : David Beal

The three famous piano pieces arranged for Brass Quintet

Scored for :

• 1st Bb Trumpet
• 2nd Bb Trumpet
• Horn in F or Horn in Eb
• Trombone (Treble & Bass Clef)
• Tuba (Bass Clef / Eb / Bb)

The harmonically clear and very French aesthetic of Satie is nowhere better seen than in his Trois Gymnopédies for piano, which were among his earliest published compositions. They have proved his most popular works, not only because of his friend Debussy’s orchestrations of two of them, but also through their haunting simplicity and classical restraint.

Satie preferred not really to explain the rather esoteric title: it has always been assumed that the word ‘gymnopédies’ vaguely refers to the dances performed for several days without interruption by naked youths in classical Sparta.

Debussy decided to orchestrate two of the three Gymnopédies after hearing Satie play them (not particularly well) on the piano at the house of the conductor Gustave Doret in 1896. They were first performed at a Société Nationale concert on 20 February 1897. Debussy orchestrated Satie’s first and third Gymnopédies and reversed this order upon publication.

ISMN - 9790570000135