“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: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 854161
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 156416
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 464669
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1201101
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1350469
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1201175
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1143535
Oboe and Clarinet Ensemble
for: Oboe and Clarinet Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 830327
for: Woodwind ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 830195
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 664385
Flute and Clarinet Quintet
for: Flute and Clarinet Quintet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829896
Clarinet Quintet
for: Clarinet Quintet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829564
Oboe and String Ensemble
for: Oboe and String Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829017
Saxophone Quintet
for: Saxophonquintett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 828974
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 947349
for: Chamber ensemble
Score
Item no.: 839593
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 153757
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 180604
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 173901
for: Piano 4 hands
Score
Item no.: 412837
Impressionistische Musik für Flöte
for: Flute, piano
Single part, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1021490
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 941305
Klavierspielen mit Erik Satie
PianoPädagogik 1
for: Piano
Study book
Item no.: 364450
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 162067
(vereinfacht)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1565960