“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
Score
Item no.: 853002
for: Clarinet, piano
Book
Item no.: 994094
from: Trois Gymnopédies
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 1341022
(vereinfacht)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1565960
Ab
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554382
for: 2 violins, viola, cello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 777143
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1203177
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1314086
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 186638
Gitarrenkammermusik
for: 2 guitars
Item no.: 217998
Piano Duet, 53
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 614633
for: T-SAX (S-SAX) KLAV CD
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 302086
Ab
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1044594
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 175776
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 362470
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 281582
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 124525
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 411251
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 412635
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 139365
for: Piccolo, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297639
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297634
for: Alto saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297628
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299805
for: Tenor recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299801
for: Horn (F), guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299786
for: Bass trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299779
for: Tuba, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299777
for: Euphonium, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299767
for: Tuba (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299765
for: Tenor recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243139
for: Alto saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243133
for: Baritone saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243129
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 1190887
Gitarrenkammermusik Violine + Gitarre
for: Violin, guitar
Item no.: 170764
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 202084
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 197359
for: Double bass, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240883
(No. 1 and 3 orchestrated by Claude Debussy)
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 738466
for: Horn (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243123
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554108
for: Trumpet, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243126
for: Horn (F), organ [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243125
for: Tenor saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240894
for: Horn (F), organ [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240891
for: Tuba (B-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240880
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1381178
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 608345