“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 4 hands
Score
Item no.: 821395
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 183114
for: Descant (soprano) recorder [tenor recorder], piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 224050
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Item no.: 614656
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 202078
UMP Album
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 964649
Eine Verständigung in Missverständnissen
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 291242
for: FL (OB/KLAR) KLAV
Score, Parts
Item no.: 368158
Pavane De La Belle Au Bois Dormant
for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1071947
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 278740
for: Flexible Woodwind Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1090609
for: Double Bass Quartet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 963134
for: Panpipe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 777140
for: Tenor saxophone [soprano saxophone], piano [organ]
Item no.: 218316
for: Soprano saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299797
for: Alto trombone, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299782
for: Violin, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299775
for: Viola, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299772
for: Double bass, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299769
from: La belle excentrique
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 755430
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1045398
for: Bassoon, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243144
for: Soprano saxophone, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243134
for: Trumpet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243127
for: Alto trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243121
for: Tuba (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243103
for: Tuba (B flat), guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243100
for: Clarinet(or Soprano Saxophone) Violin, Viola, Violoncello & Contrabass
Sheet music
Item no.: 1253876
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240901
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240900
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1612537
for: Flute [oboe/violin], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2406
from: Quatre Ogives
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 731721
from: Pièces froides
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756902
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756896
What the Little Tulip Princess Says
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 761017
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1666273
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 733032
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 821641
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 411288
from: Next-to-last-thoughts, No. 1
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 734318
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 180879
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 411266
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 648925
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 183115
for: Piano
Item no.: 109292
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 124526