This new gathering of the world's greatest classical themes follows Bergerac's highly successful My First Book of Classical Music. Here are ever-popular themes from the symphonies, concertos, and operas of such masters as Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Mozart, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, and many others, presented in easy-to-play formats for children and beginners of any age. This collection includes a free MP3 download for every piec ...
Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909) began his musical life as a piano prodigy in Barcelona at the age of four, and it is as a prolific composer of solo works for the pianoforte that we celebrate him most. This inexpensive Dover edition, designed to give you a lifetime of musical enjoyment, presents two of Albéniz's best-known works in authoritative editions: the piano suite Iberia, generally considered to be his masterpiec ...
Suitable for beginning pianists of all ages, this volume features 26 simplified versions of longer pieces by the great Johannes Brahms arranged in order of increasing difficulty. Selections include the famous «Lullaby» as well as the theme from «Academic Festival Overture» and «Hungarian Dance No. 5.» Additional melodies include themes from the composer's quintet and concertos for piano, «Variations on a Theme by Haydn,» and other pieces. ...
This compilation of easy-to-play ragtime favorites features 24 rollicking melodies by «The Big Three» of ragtime — Scott Joplin, James Scott, and Joseph Lamb — plus pieces by Eubie Blake, Tom Turpin, and other artists. Popular tunes include «Maple Leaf Rag,» «The Entertainer,» and «Tiger Rag.» Novices of all ages will delight in these simplified arrangements of carefully selected pieces. The editor provides suggested fingerin ...
Among the best-loved and most performed of Chopin's piano compositions are his mazurkas. This volume includes 51 works — remarkable for their wide emotional appeal, advanced choromatic techniques and pianistic devices, and ranging in difficulty from relatively easy, for advanced beginnings, to quite challenging, for the accomplished pianist.Edited by Carl Mikuli, a pupil of Chopin, the works in this inexpensive and attractive volu ...
Specially arranged and simplified, these pieces offer beginners the pleasure and satisfaction of playing Beethoven. Students and teachers alike will delight in such popular melodies as «Für Elise,» «Ode to Joy,» and the haunting opening of the Moonlight Sonata.A First Book of Beethoven features 24 selections, including «Romance in F,» «Turkish March,» «Minuet in G,» and «Bagatelle in G Minor.» It includes excerpts from the sonatas & ...
This volume offers pianists a unique opportunity to study and master Chopin's two piano concertos: The Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11, and the Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21. Although the composer wrote both works to launch his career as a concert artist, he soon abandoned the concert hall for the more intimate atmosphere of the salon and turned his creative attentions to the brilliant shorter works on which his reputation ...
Renowned for the originality of his music and his gifts as a melodist, Henry Purcell (1659–1695) was the preeminent English composer of the seventeenth century and one of the greatest that nation has ever produced. His gifts are apparent not only in the vocal and orchestral works on which his fame rests, but in his delightful keyboard music, much of which is relatively simple and easy to perform. This volume is a near-complete collecti ...
In 1910, following his successful orchestration of selections for the ballet Les Sylphides, the innovative young composer Igor Stravinsky was commissioned by the director of the Ballets Russes, Serge Diaghilev, to create a completely new score. The dazzling result was The Firebird, a work which brought overnight success to its creator and distinguished him as the most gifted of the younger generation of Russian composers. Based on Russian fairy ...
