The Gymnopédies, published in Paris starting in 1888, are three piano compositions written by French composer and pianist Erik Satie.

Soundtrack :

— At First Sight
— Corrina, Corrina (1994, Jessie Nelson)
— My Dinner With André (1981, Louis Malle)
— The Royal Tenenbaums
— Valentine’s Day
— What Lies Beneath
— Mr Nobody (2009, Jaco Van Dormael)
— An Other Woman (1988, Woody Allen)

The three Gymnopédies are part of the soundtrack for the anime feature film The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya.

An interpolation of Gymnopédie No. 1 is looped throughout the chorus of Janet Jackson’s song “Someone to Call My Lover”.

Gymnopédie No. 1 is played near the end of the 2015 film Love by Gaspar Noe.

A remixed version of Gymnopédie No. 1 composed by Masafumi Takada is part of the soundtrack for the Grasshopper Manufacture 2001 video game Flower, Sun, and Rain.

An adaptation of Gymnopédie No. 1 to the Game Boy Advance’s hardware by Shogo Sakai is used as background music in the 2006 Japanese video game Mother 3 under the title “Leder’s Gymnopédie”.

A version of Gymnopédie No. 1 plays in the JRPG Persona 2, when the player visits the ‘Velvet Room’ and stays there until after the Velvet Room’s main theme finishes.

Gymnopédie No. 1 is played by Gerry (Ben Mendelsohn) in the 2015 film, Mississippi Grind.

Gymnopedies 1, 2, 3 Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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