“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.
Score
Item no.: 1652157
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 175776
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 163180
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 411251
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 821043
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 412635
for: Piano
Item no.: 608979
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 124525
Flute En Ut-Ou Alto- et Harpe
for: Flute, harp
Buch
Item no.: 1072799
G
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554534
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554530
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1553162
Ab
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1049607
D
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1049567
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 140932
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 777138
Klassik
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1298180
for: Trumpet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297625
for: Clarinet, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299810
for: Bass clarinet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299809
for: Baritone saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299791
for: Trombone, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299780
for: Soprano saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240896
for: Viola, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240885
for: Piccolo, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243155
for: Bass trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243117
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297633
for: Bass recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297630
Oboe and String Ensemble
for: Oboe and String Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 830355
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 942461
F
for: Bassoon, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1589402
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 628845
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 796647
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 259764
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 6102
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1357413
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 321313
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 321312
for: Bass recorder, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299798
for: Guitar or Lute
Score
Item no.: 1669608
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 620949
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Item no.: 174796
Flute En Ut-Ou Alto- et Harpe
for: Flute, harp
Buch
Item no.: 1073075
for: Flute, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243152
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 411267
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 412492