“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: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756897
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 643335
Die Korrespondenz von 1891 bis 1913
Aus dem Französischen von Silke Hass
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 773541
from: Descriptions automatiques
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 741539
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554918
Am
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1044186
D
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1553879
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1049853
for: Flute ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 994506
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 107255
Extrait de Parade
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 107199
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 612575
for: Melody instrument (C), guitar
Item no.: 433966
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 403406
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 202077
from Trois Gymnopédies
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 340533
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 412349
Extraits pour quatuor de clarinettes en si bémol
for: 4 clarinets (B-flat)
Score
Item no.: 777428
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 412523
Belwin Beginning Full Orchestra
for: Youth symphony orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 685752
Gymnopodie No. 3
Belwin Concert Band
for: Youth concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 689436
für Klavier (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Piano
Piano score
Item no.: 291389
for: Flute, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 321474
et orgue / clavecin / piano
for: Trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 595090
for: Flute, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299815
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299804
for: Tuba (B flat), guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299762
for: Bass recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240897
Gitarrenmusik für den Unterricht
for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score
Item no.: 216062
for: Tenor saxophone, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243130
for: Cello, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243109
for: Cello, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243108
for: Tuba (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297614
1 Marche Franco-Lunaire 2 Valse Du Mysterieux Baiser
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 338521
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1203399
Beginning Band
for: Youth concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 694647
for: Piano
Item no.: 143214
First volume
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 603470
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 107287
Schirmer Performance Editions
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 641705
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
Score
Item no.: 1652157
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 725009
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 739539
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 741536
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 821043
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 853002
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