“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.
Oboe and Clarinet Ensemble
for: Oboe and Clarinet Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829052
Trumpet and String Quartet
for: Trumpet and String Quartet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 828969
Trumpet and String Quartet
for: Trumpet and String Quartet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1011704
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1191330
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 193260
for: Gitarrenduo
Score
Item no.: 564225
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1201176
for: Gitarrenduo
Score
Item no.: 133953
for: Flute, piano
Item no.: 330335
for: Chamber ensemble
Set of parts
Item no.: 1649933
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 412498
for: Brass ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 830308
Oboe and Piano
for: Oboe, piano
Book
Item no.: 1011732
Flute and Piano
for: Flute, piano
Book
Item no.: 1011705
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 949503
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 852608
Flute and Clarinet Quintet
for: Flute and Clarinet Quintet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 830201
Oboe and String Ensemble
for: Oboe and String Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829402
Flute and String Ensemble
for: Flute and String Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829378
Clarinet Quintet
for: Clarinet Quintet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829285
Saxophone Quintet
for: Saxophonquintett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829122
Clarinet Ensemble
for: Klarinettenensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829118
Flute and String Ensemble
for: Flute and String Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829012
Woodwind Quintet
for: 5 woodwinds (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1011765
for: Clarinet, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829940
Trumpet and String Quartet
for: Trumpet and String Quartet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829827
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 215858
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 852094
for: Symphonic orchestra
Book
Item no.: 1198902
Oboe and Clarinet Ensemble
for: Oboe and Clarinet Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 830300
Trumpet and Clarinet Quartet
for: Trumpet and Clarinet Quartet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 830034
Oboe and Clarinet Ensemble
for: Oboe and Clarinet Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829961
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 829000
for: 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1011731
Flute and String Ensemble
for: Flute and String Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829941
Oboe and Clarinet Ensemble
for: Oboe and Clarinet Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829842
Oboe and String Ensemble
for: Oboe and String Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829136
Saxophone Quintet
for: Saxophonquintett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829049
for: 2 Trumpets, Horn, Trombone Tuba in C
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829043
Additional Orchestra Score
for: Oboe and String Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1004691
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 338701
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 432512
Impressionistische Musik für Flöte
for: Flute, piano
Single part, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1671664
for: Flute, piano
Book
Item no.: 1191454
for: Electronic Organ
Book
Item no.: 1331287
Piano Solo
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1107998
for: 2 guitars
Item no.: 291522
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 411268