“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.
from: Pièces froides
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756900
Additional Full Score
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1038634
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 853503
3eme Gymnopedie et 3eme Gnossienne
for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1072938
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 734412
for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1113586
aus "Trois Gymnopédies" (1888)
Bearbeitung für Flöte (Oboe, Violine) und Klavier
for: Flute [oboe/violin], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2120
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554036
for: 4 flutes (quartet)
Score, 7 Single part
Item no.: 562278
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1351118
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1351117
Ab
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1045777
for: 2 trumpets
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 199058
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 107290
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 476281
Pour Piano - Collection Archives Eric Satie
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 467812
from: Advant-dernières pensées
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 734417
for: Concert band
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1037789
from: Advant-dernières pensées
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 734416
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 755774
for: Piano 4-Hands
Buch
Item no.: 1643211
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 762138
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 294444
for: Piccolo, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240906
for: Bass clarinet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240902
for: Baritone saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240893
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243142
for: Treble recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243141
for: Soprano saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243135
for: Horn (F), guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243124
for: Soprano saxophone, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299796
for: Tenor saxophone, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299792
for: Trumpet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299789
for: Horn (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299785
for: Tuba, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299776
for: Tuba (E-flat), guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299764
for: Tuba (B-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299763
for: Trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1272174
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 777141
for: Flute, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297638
for: Bass trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297621
for: Flute ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 302442
Complete Orchestra Set
for: Oboe or Violin Solo and String Orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1004692
éditées par Robert Orledge
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 851259
Klassik
for: Violinduo
Buch
Item no.: 585504
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 383599
for: INST Klavier (Orgel/HA)
Item no.: 455480
Klassik
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 895890