“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
Music score
Item no.: 754044
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1840
for: Horn (F), piano
Music score
Item no.: 724596
from: Quatre Préludes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 746489
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1083
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 722248
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759079
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 732056
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759098
from: Sonneries de la Rose+Croix
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 731724
from: Trois Sarabandes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 758457
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 755924
aus "Trois Gymnopédies" (1888)
Bearbeitung für Klarinette und Klavier
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1328
bearbeitet für Flöte oder Oboe und Klavier
for: Flute [oboe], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2493
3 Gymnopédies · 6 Gnossiennes · Sonatine bureaucratique
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 743103
from: Pièces froides
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756900
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 734412
aus "Trois Gymnopédies" (1888)
Bearbeitung für Flöte (Oboe, Violine) und Klavier
for: Flute [oboe/violin], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2120
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554036
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1351118
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1351117
Ab
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1045777
for: Trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1272174
from: Advant-dernières pensées
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 734417
from: Advant-dernières pensées
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 734416
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 755774
for: Horn (F), guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243124
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243142
for: Treble recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243141
for: Soprano saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243135
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
from: Quatre Préludes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 746488
from Colorfully Childlike
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 753158
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756898
(from Sports et Divertissements)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 726932
from: Pièces froides
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 734415
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554109
for: Tuba, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243115
for: Euphonium, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243105
for: Tuba (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240881
for: Flute, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240905
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
pour réveiller le bon gros Roi des Singes (lequel ne dort toujours que d'un œil)
for: 2 trumpets
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 4989
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 755920
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