“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: Trumpet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299789
for: Horn (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299785
for: Tuba, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299776
for: Tuba (E-flat), guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299764
for: Tuba (B-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299763
for: Trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1272174
for: Flute ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 302442
for: Flute, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297638
for: Bass trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297621
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 762138
Klassik
for: Violinduo
Buch
Item no.: 585504
from: Trois Sarabandes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 758457
for: Oboe or Violin Solo and String Orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1004692
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1038634
for: INST Klavier (Orgel/HA)
Item no.: 455480
for: 5 brass winds
Score, Parts
Item no.: 996549
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 135324
for: Soprano saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243135
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1328
for: Flute [oboe/violin], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2120
for: Flute [oboe], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2493
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1351118
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1351117
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 640767
Ab
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1045777
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 895890
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 640765
for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1113586
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 383599
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 853503
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 851259
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 476281
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 467812
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 107290
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 107283
for: Piano 4-Hands
Buch
Item no.: 1643211
for: Piano 4 hands
Score
Item no.: 478795
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1011127
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1009367
Flute, 2 Violins, Viola and Cello
for: Flute, 2 Violins, Viola and Cello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1671385
Impressionistische Musik für Flöte
for: Flute, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1021497
for: Saxophon und Klavier
Book
Item no.: 994752
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554109
for: Flute, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243153
for: bass clarinet, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243146
for: Treble recorder, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243140
for: Tuba, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243115
for: Euphonium, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243105