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The 'Eroica Variations' - so-called because they were later re-worked for the finale of Beethoven's third ('Eroica') Symphony, Op. 55 - occupy a prominent place in piano literature. Its structural gra...

This sonata for two pianos, four hands was written in 1781 for performance by Mozart and Josephine von Aurnhammer, one of his finest students. The first and third movements are fast and brilliant, con...

This sonata for two pianos, four hands was written in 1781 for performance by Mozart and Josephine von Aurnhammer, one of his finest students. The first and third movements are fast and brilliant, con...

The Classics for the Advancing Pianist series provides motivating, enjoyable literature of substantial quality for developing keyboard artists. The pieces in the series, ordered in a logical progressi...

The Classics for the Advancing Pianist series provides motivating, enjoyable literature of substantial quality for developing keyboard artists. The pieces in the series, ordered in a logical progressi...

Frédéric Chopin's Scherzos are a staple of the piano repertoire. In them, Chopin abandons the lighthearted scherzo form of the Classical period to capture powerful emotions. Scherzo No. 1, Op. 20, was...

This advanced piano piece by the 19th-century French composer is one of his most popular concert works. The program music describes a funeral procession, relieved by a lively middle section where the...

Cantos de España, Op. 232, is a suite of five piano pieces by Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz. The work was inspired by Spain itself, particularly its Asturian folklore and its idiomatic musical tradit...

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...

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...

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....

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....

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...

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...

Gabriel Faure gewidmet, stellt Ravel diesem Stück "flüssiger Poesie" eine Zeile von Henri de Regnier voran: "Der Flussgott lacht über das Wasser, wenn es ihn kitzelt". Ravel gab an, er wolle das Werk...

One of Debussy's most ambitious Impressionistic sea-pieces for piano, composed in the summer of 1904 when he was visiting an island in the English Channel. Ravel called this piece 'an orchestral reduc...

Two Scriabin compositions are presented here for performance by the left hand only, with performance notes and practice suggestions included. For pianists of advanced proficiency these will represent...

In this edition, Palmer provides fingering and offers suggestions for the performance of ornaments and other markings as revealed through the study of original sources. The introductory material inclu...

Mozart composed only two sonatas in minor keys and it has been suggested that the dark quality of this A minor sonata was influenced by events surrounding the death of Mozart's mother. The three movem...

Rachmaninoff presents here a humorous musical play for the piano which will display a great variety of touches, dynamics and tempos. The composer's own performance of this piece displays a great range...

Debussy verbindet seine "12 Préludes" des ersten Heftes nicht durch ein tonartliches Schema, sondern durch eine Kette assoziativer Mottos oder Titel, die er den Stücken jeweils am Ende folgen lässt un...

Drei Jahre nach Veröffentlichung des ersten Heftes erschien 1913 der zweite Band von Debussys Préludes, die den Eindruck der Musik Strawinskys reflektieren. Der mit der Klaviermusik Debussys intensiv...

Ravels Zyklus der "Valses nobles et sentimentales" sorgte bei der anonymen Uraufführung 1911 in der Pariser Société nationale indépendante für Irritation: Nicht wenige vermuteten Satie oder gar Kodály...