“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.
Orchestre a Cordes
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1073495
Studienpartitur
for: Chamber orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1344974
édités par Robert Orledge
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 851255
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1038656
Durand-Salabert-Eschig-Instrumental Series
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 821314
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 769763
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 822297
from Trois Gymnopedies
for: Flute, piano
Item no.: 902921
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 558227
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, 4 Single part
Item no.: 562277
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 768018
pour voix élevée et piano (ton original – original key)
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1340909
Bearbeitung für Orgel
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 660478
Chant-Piano
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 145975
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 107245
for: Piano 4 hands
Score
Item no.: 412636
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 202076
for: Clarinet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299811
for: Alto saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299795
for: Horn (E-flat), guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299784
for: Bass trombone, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299778
for: Violin, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299774
for: Double bass, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299768
Klassik
for: 5 brass winds
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1530917
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 107288
Bearbeitung für Violine (Flöte, Klarinette) und Klavier
for: VL (FL/KLAR) KLAV
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 183116
Belwin Beginning Full Orchestra
for: Youth symphony orchestra
Score
Item no.: 685751
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1201176
Trumpet and String Quartet
for: Trumpet and String Quartet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829827
Flute and String Ensemble
for: Flute and String Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829378
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 852608
Woodwind Quintet
for: 5 woodwinds (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1011765
Flute and String Ensemble
for: Flute and String Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829012
Saxophone Quintet
for: Saxophonquintett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829122
Clarinet Ensemble
for: Klarinettenensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829118
Flute and Clarinet Quintet
for: Flute and Clarinet Quintet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 830201
for: Brass ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 830308
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1191330
Clarinet Quintet
for: Clarinet Quintet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829285
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 949503
for: Clarinet, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829940
Oboe and Piano
for: Oboe, piano
Book
Item no.: 1011732
Flute and Piano
for: Flute, piano
Book
Item no.: 1011705
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 215858
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 193260
for: Gitarrenduo
Score
Item no.: 564225
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 412498
for: Gitarrenduo
Score
Item no.: 133953