“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.
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
aus: "Quatre Petites Mélodies"
for: Voice (medium), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 4150
pour 2 trompettes
for: 2 trumpets
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 4935
aus: "Quatre Petites Mélodies"
für Klarinette und Klavier
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 4046
aus: "Quatre Petites Mélodies"
for: Voice (high), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 4018
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for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1612537
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 722248
from: Sonneries de la Rose+Croix
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 731724
from: Trois Sarabandes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 758457
from: Pièces froides
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756900
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 734412
from: Advant-dernières pensées
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 734417
from: Advant-dernières pensées
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 734416
from: Quatre Préludes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 746488
from Colorfully Childlike
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 753158
(from Sports et Divertissements)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 726932
from: Pièces froides
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 734415
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: Descriptions automatiques
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756905
from: Embryons Desséchés
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756906
from: Embryons Desséchés
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756907
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 731722
from: Quatre Préludes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 746489
from: Quatre Préludes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 758458
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756895
from: Pièces froides
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756901
from: Advant-dernières pensées
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756908
from: Quatre Ogives
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 731721
from: Next-to-last-thoughts, No. 1
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 734318
What the Little Tulip Princess Says
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 761017
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756896
from: Pièces froides
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756902
from: Sonneries de la Rose+Croix
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 731723
from: Embryons Desséchés
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 741540
from: Descriptions automatiques
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756904
from: Quatre Ogives
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 725007
from: Quatre Préludes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 725008
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760244
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756897
from: Descriptions automatiques
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 741539
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 725009
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 739539
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 741536
(vereinfacht)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1565960
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 746490
from: Quatre Ogives
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 738172
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 758382