Favorite Piano Classics: 83 Best-Loved Works: (Sheet Music)

by Ronald Herder (Editor)

Overview

Pianists at all levels will enjoy having this treasury of the world's best-loved piano pieces in one handy, inexpensive volume. Included are 83 all-time favorites by 40 composers — from Albéniz to Tchaikovsky — ready for you to play:
Albéniz: Tango in D Major
Beethoven: "Für Elise"; "Moonlight" Sonata (1st movement)
Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5
Chopin: "Minute" Waltz; Polonaise Militaire
Debussy: Clair de Lune; Golliwogg's Cake Walk
Dvořák: Humoresque in G-flat Major
Joplin: The Entertainer; Maple Leaf Rag
Liszt: Liebestraum No. 3 in A-flat Major
MacDowell: To a Wild Rose
Mendelssohn: Spinning Song
Mozart: Turkish Rondo; Sonata in C Major
Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C-sharp Minor
Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess
Saint-Saëns: The Swan
Satie: First Gymnopédie
Schubert: Marche Militaire; Serenade
Schumann: Träumerei
Strauss: "On the Beautiful Blue Danube"
Tchaikovsky: Chanson Triste
… and many, many more.
Most of these pieces are brief and well within the technical range of intermediate players. Reproduced from authoritative editions, they offer a wonderful opportunity for pianists to study, practice, and play the world's most beautiful and time-honored compositions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486291529
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	07/12/1996
Series:	Dover Music for Piano Series
Edition description:	Reprints
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	523,512
Product dimensions:	8.44(w) x 10.95(h) x 0.54(d)

Table of Contents

Albéniz, Isaac
 Tango in D Major (Op. 165, No. 2)
Bach, John Sebastian
 Two Minuets in G Major
 Prelude No. 1 in C Major (From The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)
 Invention No. 1 in C Major
 Invention No. 8 in F Major
Badarzewska-Baranowska, Tekla
 The Maiden's Prayer
Beethoven, Ludwig van
 Bagatelle: "Für Elise"
 Minuet in G Major
 Minute in E-flat Major
 "Moonlight" Sonata (1st Mvmt.) (Op. 27, No. 2)
Brahms, Johannes
 Waltz in D Minor (Op. 39, No. 9)
 Waltz in G Major (Op. 39, No. 10)
 Waltz in B Minor (Op. 39, No. 11)
 Waltz in A-flat Major (Op. 39, No. 15)
 Hungarian Dance No. 5
Chabrier, Emmanuel
 Mélancolie (From Pìieces Pittoresques)
Chaminade, Cécile
 Scarf Dance
Chopin, Frédéric
 Prelude in E Minor (Op. 28, No. 4)
 Prelude in A Major (Op. 28, No. 7)
 Prelude in C Minor (Op. 28, No. 20)
 Prelude in D-flat Major ("Raindrop") (Op. 28, No. 15)
 "Minute" Waltz in D-flat Major (Op. 64, No. 1)
 Mazurka in A Minor (Op. 17, No. 4)
 Polonaise in A Major ("Militaire") (Op. 40, No. 1)
 Nocturne in E-flat Major (Op. 9, No. 2)
Debussy, Claude
 First Arabesque
 Clair de Lune (From Suite Bergamasque)
 Golliwogg's Cake Walk
Dvorák, Antonín
 Humoresque in G-flat Major (Op. 101, No. 7)
Elgar, Edward
 Salut d'Amour (Op. 12)
Gluck, Christoph Willibald
 Ballet Air (from Orfeo ed Euridice)
Granados, Enrique
 Spanish Dance No. 5 in E Minor
Grieg, Edvard
 Notturno (Op. 54, No. 4) (from Lyric Pieces)
 Two pieces from Peer Gynt: Anitra's Dance, In the Hall of the Mountain King
Handel, George Frideric
 Hornpipe in E Minor
 Sarabande in D Minor
 Largo (from Xerxes)
Haydn, Joseph
 Sonata No. 37 in D Major (1st Mvmt.)
 Hungarian ["Gypsy"] Rondo
Joplin, Scott
 The Entertainer
 Maple Leaf Rag
Liszt, Franz
 Consolation No. 3 in D-flat Major
 Liebestraum No. 3 in A-flat Major
MacDowell, Edward
 To a Wild Rose (Op. 51, No. 1) (from Woodland Sketches)
Massenet, Jules
 Élégie (Op. 10, No. 5)
Mendelssohn Felix
 Three Songs without Words
   Venetian Gondola Song (Op. 30, No. 6)
   Spring Song (Op. 62, No. 6)
   Spinning Song (Op. 67, No. 4)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
 Turkish Rondo (Finale from Sonata K331)
 Two Early Minuets (K2 & K4)
 Sonata No. 15 in C Major (K545)
 I. Allegro
 II. Andante
 III. Rondo: Allegretto
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
 Two pieces from Pictures at an Exhibition:
   Promenade
   The Old Castle
Nevin, Ethelbert
 Narcissus (Op. 13, No. 4) (from Water Scenes)
Offenbach, Jacques
 Barcarolle (from The Tales of Hoffman)
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan
 Menuet à l'Antique (Op. 14, No. 1)
Rachmaninoff, Serge
 Prelude in C-sharp Minor (Op. 3, No. 2)
Rameau, Jean-Philippe
 Minuet in A Minor
 Tambourin
Ravel, Maurice
 Pavane for a Dead Princess
Rubinstein, Anton
 Romance (Op. 44, No. 1)
Saint-Saëns, Camille
 The Swan (from The Carnival of the Animals)
Satie, Erik
 First Gymnopédie
Scarlatti, Dominico
 Sonata (Balletto) in D Major (Longo 329)
 Pastorale in D Minor (Longo 413)
Schubert, Franz
 Serenade
 Moment Musical (Op. 94, No. 3)
 Marche Militaire (Op. 51, No. 1)
Schumann, Robert
 Three Scenes from Childhood:
   Träumerei (Op. 15, No. 7)
   Child Falling Asleep (Op. 15, No. 12)
   Important Event (Op. 15, No. 6)
 The Happy Farmer (Op. 68, No. 10) (from Album for the Young)
Scriabin, Alexander
 Etude in C-sharp Minor (Op. 2, No. 1)
 Désir (Op. 57, No. 1)
Sinding, Christian
 Rustle of Spring (Op. 32, No. 3)
Smetana, Bedrich
 Memory of Bohemia in the Form of a Polka (Op. 13, No. 1)
Strauss, Johann Jr.
 On the Beautiful Blue Danube (Op. 314)
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyitch
 Chanson Triste (Op. 40, No. 2)
 Two pieces from Album for the Young:
   Waltz in E-flat Major (Op. 39, No. 9)
   Polka (Op. 39, No. 10)