“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: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1328
for: Flute [oboe/violin], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2120
for: Flute [oboe], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2493
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1351118
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1351117
Flute, 2 Violins, Viola and Cello
for: Flute, 2 Violins, Viola and Cello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1671385
Impressionistische Musik für Flöte
for: Flute, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1021497
for: Saxophon und Klavier
Book
Item no.: 994752
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554109
for: Flute, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243153
for: bass clarinet, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243146
for: Treble recorder, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243140
for: Tuba, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243115
for: Euphonium, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243105
for: Tuba, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297620
for: Double bass, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297616
for: Piccolo, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299816
for: Oboe, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299813
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299807
for: Cello, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299770
for: Flute, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240905
for: Tuba (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240881
for: Flute, piano
Book
Item no.: 994535
op. posth.
for: für Soli: Sopran, Tenor, Chor SATB und Orchester
Lyric book
Item no.: 155512
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1203259
Collection Anacrouse
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1323902
for: 2 violins, viola, cello; double bass ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 480611
The Crooks Anonymous Bassoon Quartet Series 12
for: 3 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 561758
Zeitschrift für Spielmusik
for: Treble recorder, guitar
Ensemble score
Item no.: 142374
from: Quatre Préludes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 746488
from: Pièces froides
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 734415
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756898
from Colorfully Childlike
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 753158
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 630398
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 269227
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Book
Item no.: 995577
(from Sports et Divertissements)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 726932
for: 3 guitars
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1114334
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 853060
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 107205
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 563948
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 169567
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 176558
for: Gitarrenduo
Score
Item no.: 107246
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 831946
for: 2 Trumpets, Horn, Trombone Tuba in C
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1702386
for: 2 Trumpets, Horn, Trombone Tuba in C
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829212
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1038656