“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: Tenor recorder, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243138
for: Trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243119
for: Trombone, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243118
for: Viola, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243111
for: Double bass, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243107
for: Double bass, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243106
for: Tuba (B-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243101
for: Alto saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240895
for: Alto trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240889
for: Tuba, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240887
for: Oboe, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297637
for: Bass clarinet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297635
for: Alto trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297622
for: Violin, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297619
Klassik
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1298154
for: Piccolo, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299817
for: Flute, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299814
for: Treble recorder, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299802
for: Trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299781
for: Cello, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299771
(Nr. 1 und 3 orchestriert von Claude Debussy)
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392479
Amstel Concert Band
for: Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1208860
for: Flute ensemble
Buch
Item no.: 858170
for: für Klavier
Piano reduction
Item no.: 293016
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 4093
for: Voice (high), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 4018
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 411258
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 107289
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 321480
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 612576
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 416728
for: Piano
Item no.: 555210
for: Piano
Item no.: 147940
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 853785
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 183146
for: für Soli: Sopran, Tenor, Chor SATB und Orchester
Taschenpartitur
Item no.: 350143
The Walsh Collection
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1197120
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 125918
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 967485
Le Piege De Meduseur 2 Guitares
for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1140624
Impressionistische Musik für Flöte
for: Flute, piano
Single part Flute
Item no.: 1021494
Flute and String Ensemble
for: Flute and String Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829949
Oboe and Clarinet Ensemble
for: Oboe and Clarinet Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829788
for: Bläserquintett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829544
Trumpet and Clarinet Quartet
for: Trumpet and Clarinet Quartet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829109
for: Woodwind ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829057
Flute and String Ensemble
for: Flute and String Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829011