“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.
Gitarrenkammermusik
for: 2 guitars
Item no.: 217998
Piano Duet, 53
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 614633
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 186638
for: Clarinet, piano
Book
Item no.: 994094
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 202084
Gitarrenkammermusik Violine + Gitarre
for: Violin, guitar
Item no.: 170764
for: Trombone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 628855
Score
Item no.: 1652157
for: 2 violins, viola, cello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 777143
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 741536
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 739539
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 725009
from: Trois Gymnopédies
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 1341022
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299805
for: Tenor recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299801
for: Horn (F), guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299786
for: Bass trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299779
for: Tuba, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299777
for: Euphonium, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299767
for: Tuba (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299765
for: Piccolo, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297639
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297634
for: Alto saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297628
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1203177
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1314086
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 197359
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554382
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554108
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 1190887
for: Clarinet, piano
Item no.: 190569
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 124525
(No. 1 and 3 orchestrated by Claude Debussy)
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 738466
for: Tenor recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243139
for: Alto saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243133
for: Baritone saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243129
for: Trumpet, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243126
for: Horn (F), organ [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243125
for: Horn (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243123
for: Tenor saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240894
for: Horn (F), organ [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240891
for: Double bass, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240883
for: Tuba (B-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240880
for: 2 trumpets
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 4935
for: Voice (medium), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 4150
for: T-SAX (S-SAX) KLAV CD
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 302086
for: Flute, clarinet, 2 violins, cello, double bass, piano
Item no.: 170543
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1044594
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 608345