Mike Leghorn:
>Of course, it's a matter if personal taste, but I don't think Satie's
>Gymnopedies are of the same scale or significance as Tristan.
What a delicious sentence! The scale could not be more disproportionate,
and the significance of the delightful Gymnopedies, I think, is that they
were the deliberate Gallic antithesis of Wagnerian weightiness. (I had
not realized that they date from 1888, as I just found by looking them up;
I would have placed them decades later.)
Jim Tobin