“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.
Durand-Salabert-Eschig-Signature Series
for: Piano
Bücher-Set
Item no.: 851262
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1582647
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 754044
for Cello and Piano
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 472651
for violin and strings
for: 4-6 String Instruments
Buch
Item no.: 1206896
edited by Robert Orledge
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 851257
The Walsh Collection
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 336984
Piano Large Works
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 316551
for: Piano 4 hands
Score
Item no.: 821382
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 852871
Edition Schott - Single Edition
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 616939
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 155587
Quatuor De Flutes [Utx2, Alto et Basse], Quatuor a Cordes et Piano
for: Mixed ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1073182
for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score
Item no.: 128021
Musique vocale française
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 685466
Durand-Salabert-Eschig-Musique Vocale Française
for: Voice (medium/low), piano
Music score
Item no.: 685492
Universal Saxophone Edition
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 153314
Studienpartitur
for: Chamber orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1344974
Orchestre a Cordes
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1073495
for: Horn (F), piano
Music score
Item no.: 724596
from: Quatre Préludes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 746489
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 107282
for: Piano
Item no.: 609240
for: Cello and Guitar
Buch
Item no.: 1114106
for: Piano
Item no.: 182825
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 640760
Impressionistische Musik für Flöte
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1021496
Pour Piano
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 576721
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 614346
Col.Archives E.Satie
for: Trumpet, organ
Score
Item no.: 206712
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1083
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 383598
Schirmer Performance Editions
for: Piano
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 584424
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 602384
in twenty-five pieces for piano
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 499281
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 212289
for: Guitar or Lute
Score
Item no.: 334395
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 458843
du "Prince de Bysance" de Sâr Péladan
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 578377
op. posth.
for: für Soli: Sopran, Tenor, Chor SATB und Orchester Ausgabe für Gesang und Klavier von Erik Satie
Piano reduction
Item no.: 210986
(Danses De Travers 1-3)
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 271828
Messe
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 174857
for saxophone quartet
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 336039
for: Mixed Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 493747
pour piano 4 mains
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 107285
Pièces froides, Descriptions automatiques, Embryons dessechés, Avant-dernières pensées
Schott Piano Classics
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 228059
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1840
for: Violin, piano
Score
Item no.: 169317