Noten für Klavier, Orgel & Akkordeon

Spanning Mendelssohn's compositional career, the collection contains several pieces from 'Songs without Words,' the 'Six Pieces for Children,' Op. 72, and other individuals works including the popular...

Composers first began writing character pieces in the Romantic period as a personal, inward-looking form of musical expression, on a smaller scale than sonatas of the Classical period. These new chara...

This impressive early advanced piano solo begins with a two-page introductory section that is reminiscent of the late Romantic piano writing of Rachmaninoff. Large chords and low octave pedal points c...

Concertino for the Young is a work in three movements that helps elementary students develop skills in balance, technique, and artistry. Beginning with an energetic first movement, followed by a lyric...

This solo begins in G minor with a bold chordal fanfare and sweeping arpeggios. The following lyrical section builds to a faster scherzo-like tempo with descending broken chords over a staccato bass....

This solo begins in G minor with a bold chordal fanfare and sweeping arpeggios. The following lyrical section builds to a faster scherzo-like tempo with descending broken chords over a staccato bass....

This piano duet begins with a cantabile opening in 3/4 time that serves as an introduction to a lively dance in 6/8, marked Allegro giocoso. The introduction is filled with lush harmonies and lyrical...

Padre Antonio Soler (1729--1783) was a Spanish Catholic monk whose compositions span the late-Baroque and early-Classical periods. A student of Domenico Scarlatti, he wrote over 150 keyboard sonatas....

Robert Schumann wrote this intriguing set of 12 pieces over a period of several years, between the ages of 19 and 21. The English translation of the word 'papillons' means 'butterflies', yet it was th...

Brahms was extremely fond of Johann Gottfried Herder's folk poetry collection Stimmen der Völker in Liedern (Voices of Nations in Songs) and based the Ballade, Op. 10, No. 1 on the 'Edward' ballade fr...

Op. 105 is a delightful collection of 'melodious and brilliant' character studies reminiscent of Mendelssohn's Songs without Words. Although written to develop the flexibility of the hands, they also...

Each piece of Op. 337 consists of various sections of one to several measures, each concluded by a coda. Czerny's own instructions above the studies read: 'Each repetition should be played 20 times wi...

The 16 character pieces found in this volume set a high standard for music written primarily for pedagogical purposes. Grieg's music often reflects the national flavor of his homeland, Norway, which a...

A wonderful collection of miniature pieces reminiscent of childhood, similar to Schumann's Album For The Young. Each selection is delightful and entertaining for students and audiences of all ages.

Eight contrasing pieces with descriptive titles comprise the 'Fantasy Pieces', op. 12. Although the eight pieces form a homogeneous whole, each can be played individually without loss of effect. They...

This collection includes eight movements chosen and arranged for piano solo by Tchaikovsky himself in 1891, adapted from his orchestral ballet. To assist pianists in creating a memorable performance,...

This selection of Haydn's keyboard works contains two sets of variations, individual works, sonata movements and the entire 'Sonata in D Major,' Hob. XVI:37. Lucktenberg documents Haydn's life and car...

Like the two-part inventions, Bach's three-part inventions (also known as Sinfonias) were composed as instructional material for his son, Wilhelm Friedemann. In researching the sinfonias, Willard A. P...

For four hands on one piano, early intermediate piano partners will share in the delight as they take a fun journey through the mountains together.

This three-movement suite for one piano, four hands was inspired by one of the largest lakes in North America, bordering Vermont, New York, and Quebec. The first movement, 'Wind on the Water,' is a fl...

Composed by one whose music is usually associated with transcendent difficulty, these works portray Liszt as a poetic miniaturist. The works chosen include the familiar Schumann/Liszt 'Dedication' and...

The Three Sonatinas, Op. 20 can be studied after the Clementi Sonatinas, Op. 36 and are also slightly more difficult than the Six Sonatinas, Op. 55. They prepare the student for study of some of the H...

As with all Alfred masterwork Editions, the 13 selections of this book appear in their original, unsimplified forms. Menuets, marches, musettes and preludes comprise this carefully edited volume for e...

This diverse collection contains dances (including the 'Menuet in G'), the 'Sonatina in G,' and 'Lustig, Traurig.' Each piece is presented in its original form with Beethoven's markings clearly indica...

To capture the full, rich orchestral sound of this famous march, two intermediate level pianists will play at one keyboard, each supplying melodic material, textures and drama to the performance. Hist...