Favorite Piano Classics (Dover Music for Piano)
Favorite Piano Classics (Dover Music for Piano) by Ronald Herder
English | July 12, 1996 | ISBN: 0486291529 | EPUB | 240 pages | 35.8 MB
English | July 12, 1996 | ISBN: 0486291529 | EPUB | 240 pages | 35.8 MB
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.