Erik Satie

Erik Satie's slim, ironic piano miniatures — the three Gymnopédies, the Gnossiennes, the Pièces froides — invented an alternative French keyboard tradition: spare, modal, anti-rhetorical, and deeply influential on Debussy and the entire twentieth century.

The Gymnopédies are among the most-listened-to piano pieces ever written, and Satie's aesthetic sits behind a century of minimalist and ambient music.

The 14 public-domain piano works listed below are sortable, downloadable as PDF score editions, and free to study, perform, record, and re-engrave. Each piece links to its individual page with full catalog data, performance notes, and historical context. Browse more works from the Impressionist era, or use the difficulty filters below to narrow by technical level.