“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: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1385121
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1384996
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1381168
aus: "Quatre Petites Mélodies"
für Klarinette und Klavier
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 4046
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 741199
for: Oboe, piano
Music score
Item no.: 757206
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 743655
from: Trois Sarabandes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 738173
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 760564
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2405
for: Viola, piano
Music score
Item no.: 755083
aus "Trois Gymnopédies" (1888)
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1300
Grande Messe de l'Église Métropolitaine d'Art
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 6188
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 741535
from: Pièces froides
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 741538
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 734413
aus "Trois Gymnopédies" (1888)
bearbeitet für Saxophonquintett
for: 5 saxophones (SAATBar)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2663
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1357414
for: Oboe, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240904
for: Treble recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240899
for: Horn (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240890
for: Clarinet, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243148
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243145
for: Bass recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243137
for: Alto saxophone, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243132
for: Tuba, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243114
aus: "Quatre Petites Mélodies"
for: Voice (high), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 4018
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756894
from: Quatre Ogives
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 725006
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 724800
Am
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1046073
from: Sonneries de la Rose+Croix
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 743028
aus: "Trois Gymnopédies" (1888)
bearbeitet für Altsaxophon und Klavier
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 4093
for: Oboe, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243150
for: Tenor recorder, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243138
for: Trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243119
for: Trombone, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243118
for: Viola, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243111
for: Double bass, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243107
for: Double bass, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243106
for: Tuba (B-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243101
for: Alto saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240895
for: Alto trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240889
for: Tuba, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240887
(vereinfacht)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1565960