“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: Piccolo, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243155
for: Flute, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243152
for: Bass trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243117
for: Bass recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297630
Oboe and String Ensemble
for: Oboe and String Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 830355
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 628845
Schott Piano Collection
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756720
from: Trois Sarabandes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 758456
Quatuor De Guitares
for: 4 guitars (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1071820
from: Trois Gnossiennes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 741367
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2492
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 758141
for: 3 or more Guitars
Score
Item no.: 1207003
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 853279
Klassik
for: Saxophonquintett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1530929
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 558226
Bekannte Werke für Orgel bearbeitet
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 617487
Gymnopedie No.1
for: Guitar or Lute
Score
Item no.: 554264
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 734146
21 Piano Works
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 277740
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 853097
for: Violin, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240886
for: Cello, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240884
for: Piccolo, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243154
for: Baritone saxophone, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243128
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 202075
Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 587729
for: Clarinet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297636
for: Soprano saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297629
for: Horn (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297623
for: Tuba (B-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297613
for: bass clarinet, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299808
for: Treble recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299803
for: Tenor saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299793
for: Viola, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299773
Second volume
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 695401
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 411096
2 Clarinets
for: 2 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 828994
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1200802
Goodmusic Concert Classics
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 951682
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1385121
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1384996
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1381168
Piano Duet, 57
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 577177
from Trois Gymnopedies
for: Clarinet, piano
Item no.: 897218
aus: "Quatre Petites Mélodies"
für Klarinette und Klavier
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 4046