“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: Violin, guitar
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Item no.: 1243112
for: Euphonium, guitar
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Item no.: 1243104
for: Tuba (E-flat), guitar
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for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano [organ]
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for: Bass recorder, guitar
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for: Tenor saxophone, piano [organ]
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for: Bassoon, guitar
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for: Soprano saxophone, guitar
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for: Trumpet, piano [organ]
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for: Alto trombone, piano [organ]
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for: Tuba (E-flat), piano [organ]
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for: Tuba (B flat), guitar
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for: Oboe, piano [organ]
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for: Clarinet, piano [organ]
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for: Alto trombone, guitar
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for: Violin, piano [organ]
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for: Viola, guitar
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Item no.: 1243110
for: Tenor saxophone, guitar
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for: Cello, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1243109
for: Cello, guitar
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Item no.: 1243108
for: Tenor recorder, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1243139
for: Alto saxophone, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1243133
for: Baritone saxophone, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1243129
for: Trumpet, guitar
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Item no.: 1243126
for: Horn (F), organ [piano]
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for: Horn (E-flat), piano [organ]
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for: Piccolo, piano [organ]
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for: Flute, guitar
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for: Bass trombone, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1243117
for: Piccolo, guitar
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Item no.: 1243154
for: Baritone saxophone, guitar
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Item no.: 1243128
for: Clarinet, guitar
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for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1243145
for: Bass recorder, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1243137
for: Alto saxophone, guitar
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Item no.: 1243132
for: Tuba, guitar
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Item no.: 1243114
for: Oboe, guitar
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Item no.: 1243150
for: Tenor recorder, guitar
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Item no.: 1243138
for: Trombone, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1243119
for: Trombone, guitar
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Item no.: 1243118
for: Viola, piano [organ]
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for: Double bass, piano [organ]
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for: Double bass, guitar
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Item no.: 1243106
for: Tuba (B-flat), piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1243101
for: Piano
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Item no.: 1201175
for: Soprano saxophone, guitar
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Item no.: 1299796
for: Tenor saxophone, guitar
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Item no.: 1299792
for: Trumpet, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1299789