“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.
Schott Piano Classics
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 725005
War Song of the Kidney Bean King
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 761027
from: Trois Gymnopédies
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1565953
from: Trois Gnossiennes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756525
from: Descriptions automatiques
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756905
from: Embryons Desséchés
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756906
D
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1049566
from: Embryons Desséchés
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756907
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1261955
for: Euphonium, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240882
for: Bass clarinet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243147
for: Horn (E-flat), guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243122
for: Bass trombone, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243116
for: Violin, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243112
for: Euphonium, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243104
for: Tuba (E-flat), guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243102
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1380486
for: Piano
Item no.: 1638103
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1383809
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1935
bearbeitet für Flöte (Oboe, Violine) und Klavier
for: Flute [oboe/violin], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1939
aus "Trois Gymnopédies" (1888)
bearbeitet für Streichquintett
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, cello [3 violins, viola, cello] (quintet)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2664
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 731722
from: Quatre Préludes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 758458
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756895
bearbeitet für Klarinette und Klavier
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2494
from: Pièces froides
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756901
for: Horn (F), piano
Music score
Item no.: 759794
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1351119
from: Trois Gnossiennes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 726910
from: Advant-dernières pensées
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756908
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1044193
Walzer
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1691
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1357412
for: Clarinet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240903
for: Tenor recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240898
for: Trumpet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240892
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243143
for: Bass recorder, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243136
for: Tenor saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243131
from: Quatre Ogives
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 731721
from: Next-to-last-thoughts, No. 1
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 734318
from: La belle excentrique
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 755430
What the Little Tulip Princess Says
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 761017
bearbeitet für Flöte (Oboe, Violine) und Klavier
for: Flute [oboe/violin], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2406
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756896
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 733032
from: Pièces froides
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756902