“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.
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for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1666273
Dm
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1045398
for: Bassoon, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243144
for: Soprano saxophone, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243134
for: Trumpet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243127
for: Alto trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243121
for: Tuba (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243103
for: Tuba (B flat), guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243100
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240901
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240900
for: Clarinet(or Soprano Saxophone) Violin, Viola, Violoncello & Contrabass
Sheet music
Item no.: 1253876
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for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1612537
bearbeitet für Flöte oder Oboe und Klavier
for: Flute [oboe], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 4774
bearbeitet für Klarinette und Klavier
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1940
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 724781
from: Sonneries de la Rose+Croix
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 731723
bearbeitet für Klarinette und Klavier
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2407
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 755927
for: Trumpet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 755904
from: Embryons Desséchés
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 741540
from: Descriptions automatiques
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756904
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1049605
D
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554308
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1646005
for: Bass trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240888
for: Alto trombone, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243120
for: Violin, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243113
for: Viola, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243110
for: Clarinet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243149
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1383879
for: Oboe, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243151
Schott Piano Classics
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 748626
from: Quatre Ogives
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 725007
from: Quatre Préludes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 725008
for: Trumpet, piano
Music score
Item no.: 756518
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760244
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756897
from: Descriptions automatiques
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 741539
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554918
Am
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1044186
D
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1553879
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1049853
for: Cello, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243109
for: Cello, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243108
for: Bass recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240897
for: Tenor saxophone, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243130
aus: "Quatre Petites Mélodies"
for: Voice (medium), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 4150
pour 2 trompettes
for: 2 trumpets
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 4935