Guido Theis

Wer kennt es nicht? Der Geburtstagstisch ist gedeckt, die Gäste sind da, die Kerzen brennen, das Geburtstagskind strahlt, die Geschenke häufen sich und alles scheint bestens zu sein - und doch fehlt i...

This volume opens with especially easy minuets written by Mozart when he was just eight years old. A successful mix of well-known and unusual pieces leads the player all the way to the profound Fantas...

At the piano with Mendelssohn - everyone naturally thinks first of his wonderful Songs without Words, from which we have chosen a varied selection here. But there are other pieces in this volume that...

Brahms's music does not have to be difficult or melancholy - our selection here proves it. Even less advanced pianists will find playable, immediately appealing pieces amongst his works for piano. His...

You do not need to be a piano virtuoso to enter into the dream world of French Impressionism. With Debussy this is especially straightforward because he knows how to create masterly miniatures possess...

Johann Sebastian Bach is more or less the alpha and omega of piano playing: there is hardly a piano pupil who did not start off with his little preludes or his inventions. And almost all pianists rega...

Haydn's piano sonatas are indispensable in the moderately difficult piano repertoire - not just because of their sheer playability, but also because of their humour and inventiveness. Besides several...

Schumann was a poet at the piano, and the best known of his piano pieces bear programmatic titles such as 'Träumerei' ('Reverie'), 'Von fremden Ländern und Menschen' ('Of foreign lands and people') or...

Franz Liszt is still regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time: a superb virtuoso whose own piano works also bristle with extreme technical difficulties. But no one needs to be afraid of bi...

Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas are the 'New Testament' of music, according to Hans von Bülow. Our selection here does not take things quite so solemnly, because we have also taken the opportunity to sho...

Of the twelve composers in our series 'At the piano', Franz Schubert was undoubtedly the least at home at the piano - but nevertheless what masterpieces he left us for this instrument! There is hardly...

Although Frédéric Chopin was one of the greatest piano virtuosos of his time, even pianists of moderate technical ability can enter into his Romantic, magical realm. His mastery was such that his own,...

Edvard Grieg was a master of the Romantic miniature for piano, and with his ten volumes of 'lyric pieces' he more or less created a new genre all on his own. These works offer an abundance of wonderfu...