“The more musicians there are, the crazier there are!”
The French piano virtuoso and composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) is best known for his magnificent piano pieces, including Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes. Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore all his works today.
Everyone knows Satie’s showpiece, the simple yet haunting Gymnopédie No. 1, and it was Erik Satie’s unique style that influenced such artists as John Cage and was also considered the birth of “minimalism”. Satie himself described his music as “furnishing music”, which should not stress the listener unnecessarily (with the exception of his “Vexations”), and he was a role model for the modern Easy Listening artists like Ludovico Einaudi.
Friendships with Claude Debussy and Pablo Picasso, who designed the costumes, sets and curtain for his ballet Parade, established him as an important figure of the Parisian avant-garde. Although he did not enjoy the same fame as Claude Debussy, he had his own following, and was considered a mentor by the composer group “Les Six”, which comprised of Georges Auric , Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre.
His unusual and extravagant performance instructions, such as “like a nightingale with a toothache”, “serious and heavy, sullen and scratchy, hypocritical, May 15th, sober in the morning” or the instruction to repeat his “vexations” 840 times, are a little insight into genius, and the madness of Erik Satie.
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 107192
Quatuor De Guitares
for: 4 guitars (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1071820
Klassik
for: Saxophonquintett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1530929
for: Violin, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240886
for: Cello, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240884
for: Piccolo, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243154
for: Baritone saxophone, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243128
Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 587729
for: bass clarinet, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299808
for: Treble recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299803
for: Tenor saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299793
for: Viola, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299773
for: Clarinet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297636
for: Soprano saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297629
for: Horn (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297623
for: Tuba (B-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297613
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1381168
Goodmusic Concert Classics
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 951682
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1200802
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1385121
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1384996
from Trois Gymnopedies
for: Clarinet, piano
Item no.: 897218
Piano Duet, 57
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 577177
from: Trois Gnossiennes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 741367
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 277740
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2492
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 411096
for: Guitar or Lute
Score
Item no.: 554264
Second volume
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 695401
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 853097
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 853279
for: 2 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 828994
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 558226
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 202075
for: 3 or more Guitars
Score
Item no.: 1207003
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 617487
for: Flute ensemble
Book
Item no.: 1329673
Goodmusic Concert Classics
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 951693
for: Oboe, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299812
for: Bass recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299799
for: Baritone saxophone, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299790
for: Horn (F), organ [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299787
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1013576
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243145
for: Bass recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243137
for: Tuba, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243114