Impressionist · French
Erik Satie
1866 – 1925
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.
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Piano works by Erik Satie
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All works listed by Open Opus
97 works · Data from Open Opus (openopus.org), released into the public domain (CC0) — fetched 2026-09-11. Catalog entries only: title, subtitle, and genre classification as published by Open Opus. These are not downloadable score editions.
By genre, from Open Opus’s own classification on this composer’s work records: 73 Keyboard · 3 Orchestral · 4 Chamber · 11 Vocal · 6 Stage.
- 2 ChosesKeyboard
- 2 Rêveries nocturnesKeyboard
- 3 Distinguished waltzes of a disgusted dandyKeyboard
- 3 Gnossiennes, for pianoKeyboard
- 3 GymnopédiesKeyboard
- 3 Mélodies of 1886Vocal
- 3 Mélodies of 1916Vocal
- 3 Pages mystiquesKeyboard
- 3 Petites pièces montéesOrchestral
- 3 pieces in the form of a pear, for piano 4-handsKeyboard
- 3 SarabandesKeyboard
- 4 OgivesKeyboard
- 4 PréludesKeyboard
- 5 NocturnesKeyboard
- 6 GnossiennesKeyboard
- 6 Pièces de la période 1906-1913Keyboard
- 9 Danses gothiques, for pianoKeyboard
- Age-old and instantaneous hoursKeyboard
- Air du Grand Prieur, for guitarChamber
- AllegroKeyboard
- Avant-dernieres penseesKeyboard
- CaresseKeyboard
- ChansonVocal
- Chanson médiévaleVocal
- Chapters turned every which wayKeyboard
- Childish ChatterKeyboard
- Choses vues à droite et à gauche; sans lunettes, for violin and pianoChamber
- Cinéma: Entr'acte symphonique de RelâcheOrchestral
- Cinq grimaces pour 'le songe d'une nuit d'été', incidental musicOrchestral
- Cold PiecesKeyboard
- Danses de traversKeyboard
- Descriptions automatiquesKeyboard
- Desespoir agreableKeyboard
- Deux Oeuvres de jeunesseKeyboard
- Eginhard, prelude for piano from incidental musicKeyboard
- Embryons desséchésKeyboard
- Fantaisie-ValseKeyboard
- Fete donnee par des chevaliers normandes en l'honneur d'une jeune demoiselleKeyboard
- Flabby preludes for a DogKeyboard
- Gnossienne no. 7Keyboard
- Gnossienne, for piano no. 1Keyboard
- Gnossienne, for piano no. 3Keyboard
- Gymnopedie, for piano no. 1Keyboard
- Heures seculaires et instantaneesKeyboard
- In Riding Habit, 4 pieces for piano duetKeyboard
- Jack in the BoxKeyboard
- Jack-in-the-Box, pantomime ballet for pianoStage
- Java Martienne, for organKeyboard
- Je te veux, café-concert songVocal
- L' Omnibus automobile, songVocal
- L'enfance de Ko-QuoKeyboard
- La diva de l'empire, cabaret songVocal
- La statue retrouvée, incidental music for trumpet and organChamber
- Le fils des étoiles, Chaldean pastoral, 3 preludesKeyboard
- Le Nazaréen, incidental music for pianoKeyboard
- Le Piccadilly, marchKeyboard
- Le Piège de Méduse, dancesKeyboard
- Les FleursVocal
- LudionsVocal
- Menus propos enfantinesKeyboard
- Mercure — BalletStage
- Messe des pauvres, for piano, chorus, and organVocal
- Musiques intimes et secrètesKeyboard
- New Cold PiecesKeyboard
- Next-to-last thoughtsKeyboard
- Nouvelles pièces enfantines, 3 piecesKeyboard
- Old Sequins and ArmorKeyboard
- Parade — BalletStage
- PassacailleKeyboard
- Petite musique de clown tristeKeyboard
- Petite ouverture à danser, for pianoKeyboard
- Picturesque ChildishnessKeyboard
- Poudre d'orKeyboard
- Prélude de la Porte Héroique du CielKeyboard
- Prélude en tapisserieKeyboard
- Premier menuetKeyboard
- Première pensée Rose + CroixKeyboard
- ProfondeurKeyboard
- Relâche — BalletStage
- Rêverie du pauvreKeyboard
- Socrate, Drame Symphonique avec voixStage
- Sonatine bureaucratiqueKeyboard
- Songe-creuxKeyboard
- Sonnerie pour réveiller le bon gros roi des singes, for 2 trumpetsChamber
- Sonneries de la Rose + CroixKeyboard
- Tendrement, valse chantéeVocal
- The Angora OxKeyboard
- The Dreamy Fish, incidental musicKeyboard
- The puppets danceKeyboard
- Tiresome PeccadilloesKeyboard
- TrioKeyboard
- Truly Flabby Preludes for a DogKeyboard
- Unpleasant glimpses, 3 pieces for piano 4-handsKeyboard
- Uspud, Christian ballet in 3 scenes for pianoStage
- Valse-BalletKeyboard
- Valse-ballet; Fantaisie-valseKeyboard
- Verset laïque et somptueuxKeyboard