Best of Piano Classics

Selected for pupils in their first years of piano lessons, this volume contains 50 of the most beautiful original compositions for piano from the days of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) to the days of Alexander Grechaninov, providing playing material from the baroque period to the early 20th century. Apart from numerous individual pieces, it also contains easy sonatas and sonatinas by Haydn, Clementi, Mozart, and Beethoven. Complete with fingerings, tempo suggestions and notes on the execution of ornaments, this collection with its modern and reader-friendly layout is ideal for lessons and for playing at home. Content: J. S. Bach: Praeludium C major (BWV 924) • J. S. Bach: Praeludium F major (BWV 927) • J. S. Bach: Praeludium C major (BWV 939) • J. S. Bach: Praeludium C minor (BWV 999) • J. S. Bach: Praeludium No. 1 Cmajor (BWV 846) – J. S. Bach: Invention No. 1 C major (BWV 772) • J. S. Bach: Invention No. 4 D minor (BWV 775) • J. S. Bach: Invention No. 8 F major (BWV 779) • J. S. Bach: Invention No. 13 A minor (BWV 784) • G. F. Händel: Sarabande D minor (HWV 437) • J. Haydn: Sonata G major (Hob.XVI:8) • C. Muzio: Sonatina C major, op. 36/1 • W. A. Mozart: Menuett G major (KV 1e + f (Trio)) • W. A. Mozart: Menuet F major (KV 2) • W. A. Mozart: Allegro B major (KV 3) • W. A. Mozart: Rondeau D major (KV 15d) • W. A. Mozart: Alla turca (from: Piano Sonata A major (KV 331), 3rd mouvement) • W. A. Mozart: Sonata C major (KV 545) • L. V. Beethoven: Sonatina G major • L. V. Beethoven: Sonatina F major • L. V. Beethoven: Für Elise (WoO 59) – L. V. Beethoven: Bagatelle G minor, op. 119/1 • L. V. Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata D minor, op. 27/2 • F. Schubert: Waltz B minor, op. 18/6 • F. Schubert: Impromptu A major (D 935/2) • F. Burgmüller: Arabesque, op. 100/2 • F. Burgmüller: Ballad, op. 100/15 • F. Burgmüller: Restlessness, op. 100/18 • F. Mendelssohn: Venetian Boat Song, op. 19/6 • F. Mendelssohn: Song without Words E major, op. 30/3 • R. Schumann: From foreign Lands and People, op. 15/1 • R. Schumann: Reveries, op. 15/7 • R. Schumann: Wild Horseman, op. 68/8 • R. Schumann: Bogeyman’s Coming, op. 15/11 • R. Schumann: The Merry Peasant, op. 68/10 • F. Chopin: Prélude E minor, op. 28/4 • F. Chopin: Prélude B minor, op. 28/6 • F. Chopin: Raindrop Prelude D major, op. 28/15 • F. Chopin: Mazurka A minor, op. 7/2 • F. Chopin: Mazurka F major, op. 68/3 • F. Chopin: Waltz A minor, op. posth. • P. I. Tchaikovsky: Mazurka, op. 39/10 • P. I. Tchaikovsky: Sweet Dreaming, op. 29/21 • P. I. Tchaikovsky: Chanson triste, op. 40/2 • E. Grieg: Waltz, op. 12/3 • E. Grieg: Norwegian Melody, op. 12/6 • C. Debussy: Le petit nègre • C. Debussy: The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (from: Prèludes I, No. 8) • A. Gretchannoff: An Old Romance, op. 119/2 • E. Satie: Gymnopédie No. 1