Best-Loved Piano Classics 36 Favorite Works by 22 Great Composers

by Herder, Ronald

• ISBN13: 9780486413785
• ISBN10: 0486413780
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-08-21
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

36 well-known pieces for beginning and intermediate-level pianists include Albéniz, Leyenda (Asturias); Bach, "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"; Chopin, "Revolutionary" Etude; Debussy, The Sunken Cathedral; Dvorák, Slavonic Dance in E minor; Grieg, Morning Mood; Strauss, Tales from the Vienna Woods; plus works by Beethoven, Brahms, Handel, Haydn, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Scarlatti, Schubert, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, and others.

Table of Contents

Albeniz Isaac
Leyenda (Asturias)	2	(6)
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue (BWV 903)	8	(10)
Prelude in F minor	18	(2)
(Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, No.12)
``Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring''	20	(3)
Beethoven, Ludwig Van
``Pathetique'' Sonata (op. 13)
Mvmt. II: Adagio Cantabile	23	(4)
``Rage Over a Lost Penny''	27	(10)
(Rondo a capriccio, Op. 129)
Brahms, Johannes
``Edward'' Ballade (Op. 10, No. 1)	37	(3)
Hungarian Dance No. 3 in F major	40	(3)
Intermezzo in A major (Op. 118, No. 2)	43	(4)
Chopin, Frederic
Etude in E major (Op. 10, No. 3)	47	(4)
Etude in C minor (``Revolutionary'') (Op. 10, No. 12)	51	(5)
Nocturne in E minor (Op. 72, No. 1)	56	(4)
Fantasie-Impromptu (Op. 66)	60	(9)
Debussy, Claude
The Sunken Cathedral	69	(5)
The Maiden with the Flaxen Hair	74	(2)
Dvorak, Antonin
Slavonic Dance in E minor (Op. 46, No. 2)	76	(5)
Grieg, Edvard
From Peer Gynt (Op. 46)
Morning Mood	81	(5)
Ase's Death	86	(2)
Norwegian Dance No. 2 (from Op. 35)	88	(13)
Handel, George Frideric
``The Harmonious Blacksmith''
Air & Five Variations	101
Haydn, Joseph
Andante with Variations, in F minor	91	(13)
Liszt, Franz
Valse Oubliee No. 1	104	(6)
Mendelssohn, Felix
Rondo capriccioso in E major (Op. 14)	110	(8)
Scherzo in E minor (Op. 16, No. 2)	118	(5)
Moszkowski, Moritz
Serenata (Op. 15, No. 1)	123	(3)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Theme and 12 Variations
on ``Ah! vous dirai-je, maman''	126	(8)
Fantasy No. 3 in D minor	134	(4)
Mussorgsky, Modest
Hopak of the Merry Young Ukranians	138	(4)
Rubinstein, Anton
Melody in F (Op. 3, No. 1)	142	(4)
Scarlatti, Domenico
Sonata in E major (Capriccio, K380)	146	(4)
Scharwenka, Xaver
Polish National Dance No. 1 in E-flat minor	150	(4)
Schubert, Franz
Impromptu in G-flat major (Op. 90, No. 3)	154	(6)
Schumann, Robert
Arabesque (Op. 18)	160	(8)
Soaring (Op. 12, No. 2)	168	(4)
Strauss, Johann
Tales from the Vienna Woods	172	(8)
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyitch
November: ``In the Troika''	180