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