Wilhelm Ohmen

The present volume contains a selection of the best-known and most popular pieces by Satie, including Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes, but also two early works (1885), compositions from the neo-Gregorian...

The number of Georg Friedrich Handel's works for piano is reasonably small, compared to that by his great contemporary Johann Sebastian Bach. He was an excellent harpsichordist and improviser. The wor...

Learn from the master: Johann Sebastian Bach composed countless pieces specifically for his many students. My First Bach contains many of these educational pieces which are, for the most part, arrange...

Even Mozart had to learn how to play the piano. This collection of easy works includes pieces composed by both young Mozart and by his father, for his piano lessons.Including pieces from the volume No...

My First Bach and My First Mozart are now followed by a third edition of easy-to-play original works from one of the most important composers of the Romantic era: Robert Schumann. This collection incl...

Ludwig van Beethoven wrote numerous piano pieces to teach to his pupils. Still, today, his works are an integral part of piano lessons. My first Beethoven is perfect for pianists of every age to becom...

Chopin - this is passion, elegance and melancholy! And it is exactly what makes him well liked in piano lessons and while music-making at home. Chopin's music is technically quite demanding, but thank...

My First Tchaikovsky contains easy and intermediate level piano pieces beginning with a selection from the Album for the Young Op. 39. The pieces from the cycle The Seasons and 12 Pieces of medium dif...

My First Schubert' contains a selection of the great composer's easier to moderately difficult piano works, including the famous 'Trauerwalzer' (Op. 9, No. 2), Moment musical in F minor (Op. 94, No. 3...

George Frideric Handel, born in the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti, ranks among the most important composers of the Baroque era, alongside Bach and Scarlatti, Dieterich Buxt...

Erik Satie was an unconventional composer, 'one of those natures who are out of opposition to everything that is in existence, who question everything and are willing to start all over their lives' (K...

Louis Köhler (1820-1886) made a name for himself as a composer of educational literature in particular. His sonatina in G major (Allegro moderato - Andantino - Rondo Allegretto), too, is intended and...

Thomas Attwood (1765-1838) was a pupil of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from 1784 until 1787. Since 1795 he worked as organist at the St. Paul's Cathedral in London, since 1821 as organist in the private ch...

Held in high esteem by Ludwig van Beethoven, Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) is regarded as one of those composers who played a significant part in the development of piano sonatina and sonata. His sonatin...

The cycle Children's Corner by Debussy created between 1906-08 is one of the standard works used in piano lessons, containing the following pieces: Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum, Jimbo's Lullaby, Serenad...

The composer Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) from Nuremberg left an extensive Clavierwerk [piano oeuvre] which can be played on the organ, harpsichord or modern piano alike. He was a master of variations...

Das Klavierstück Frühlingsrauschen gilt als die bekannteste Komposition des norwegischen Komponisten Christian Sinding. 1896 im Salon-Stil komponiert, malt das Charakterstück den aufblühenden überschw...

Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894), the musical child prodigy from Ukraine, gave his first piano concert at the age of nine. He was one of the most successful and most famous performers of his time. His per...