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1888 set of three compositions by Erik Satie

For the Ancient Greek festival and dance, see Gymnopaedia.

The Gymnopédies (French pronunciation:[ʒim.nɔ.pe.di]), or Trois Gymnopédies ("Three Nude Dances"), are three piano compositions written by French composer and pianist Erik Satie.

He completed the whole set by 2 April 1898, but they were at first published individually: the first and the third in 1888, the second in 1895.^[1]

History

See also: List of compositions by Erik Satie § Piano music

The work's unusual title comes from the French form of gymnopaedia, the ancient Greek word for an annual festival where young men danced either naked or, perhaps figuratively, simply unarmed.

The source of the title has been a subject of debate. Satie and his friend Alexis Roland-Manuel maintained that he adopted it after reading Gustave Flaubert's novel Salammbô, while others see a poem by J. P. Contamine de Latour as the source of Sat