“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.: 107243
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score, Vocal score
Item no.: 383600
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 157934
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 395214
for: Piano 4 hands
Score
Item no.: 217824
for: Piano
Item no.: 172424
for: 5 flutes (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 583278
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 581217
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Book
Item no.: 552949
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 602382
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 118979
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 322962
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 851264
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 820766
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 323018
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 851263
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 851255
From Cabaret to Concert Hall
Oxford Monographs on Music
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 770733
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 851265
20 brani originali con note interpretative | 20 original pieces with performing notes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1637374
Nine piano pieces for beginners — Menus propos enfantins — Peccadilles importunes — Enfantillages pittoresques
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1209938
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 851256
for: Piano
CD
Item no.: 1169726
for: 4 clarinets
Set of parts
Item no.: 851125
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 851258
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1208672
Trascrizione e adattamento per sei giovani percussionisti
for: Percussion ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1207736
More than the Score
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 674927
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1208673
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 851261
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 971798
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1643209
3eme Gymnopedie et 3eme Gnossienne
for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1072938
for: 4 flutes (quartet)
Score, 7 Single part
Item no.: 562278
for: 2 trumpets
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 199058
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243142
for: Treble recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243141
for: Horn (F), guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243124
for: Piccolo, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240906
for: Bass clarinet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240902
for: Baritone saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240893
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 294444
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 777141
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554036
for: Concert band
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1037789
for: Soprano saxophone, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299796
for: Tenor saxophone, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299792
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