Klassische Klavierstücke

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...

Erich Wolfgang Korngold gave this waltz to his wife Luzi who was a Chopin lover as a present on her 46th birthday in 1949. Since Luzi was a brilliant expert on Chopin's oeuvre, her husband not only im...

This volume contains a selection of piano works with children's pieces and sonatas of intermediate difficulty.Reinecke's style, which is relatively conservative, is shaped by role models from the firs...

These charming 18th-century miniatures in progressive order, edited by Hans-Günter Heumann, are ideal articulation studies. In addition, they train cantabile playing as well as interpretation and help...

In a film portrait of dancer, painter and sculptor Antje Tesche-Mentzen, I learned that in former times she was a proficient pianist. When she told me that she intended to begin playing again, I promi...

The virtuoso Toccatina from the 8 Concert Studies Op. 40 is most popular piano piece by Kapustin. On YouTube one can find recordings of numerous pianists. Its use in the opening credits of the compute...

Black Earth was inspired by Kara Toprak, a popular song in Turkey. The composer of the song, As?k Veysel (1891-1973), was one of the last great Turkish balladeers and the final link in a thousand-year...

The Virtuoso Piano Transcription Series presents sophisticated piano transcriptions of well-known past and present works. The art of transcription and paraphrase, particularly established by Franz Lis...

The Easy Concert Pieces series presents easy piano pieces for beginners in progressive order. Three volumes have already been published. These pieces are intended to complement a piano tutorial method...

The Easy Concert Pieces series by the experienced piano teacher Monika Twelsiek presents easy piano pieces for beginners in progressive order. Three volumes have already been published. These pieces a...

The 12 melodious miniatures inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven's best-known works offer surprising playing moments on the piano. Starting with well-known motifs from the "Moonlight" or Waldstein sonatas...

Composer Barbara Heller has been challenging the artistic imagination for many years by using a limited amount of musical material in her works. An example of this approach can be seen in her work as...

This collection tells little stories on the piano, written for some very young pianists. Each title sets a musical and technical challenge. Individual pieces may be put together to tell a longer story...

This effective encore piece was written for the piano duo Lucas & Arthur Jussen. Virtuoso scales and percussive inside-piano effects put the gloomy and aggressive tonal world of the piano to the extre...

These sonatas by Weber are edited from the text of the Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition.

Both waltzes are based on the famous musical cryptogram B-A-C-H and were created in 1975. The very same year, Nino Rota was asked by Federico Fellini, who was just shooting the film Casanova, to write...

This sonata is articulated in three movements built on Basque themes. The Obertura, presents in a powerful and solemn setting the melody of 'Agur Jaunak'. The Nocturno, is a slow and expressive variat...

This arrangement of Organ Fantasia BWV 572 for piano solo is an excellent addition to your piano library. Arranged by Vyacheslav Gryaznov for intermediate to advanced players, this high baroque piece...

This arrangement of Habenera for piano duet is an excellent addition to your teaching repetoire, perfect for young players of an easy to intermediate level. At the request of his first teacher, Manana...

In the six variations, Heucke takes up typical Schubert compositional techniques and develops different variation characters, for example by playing with the major-minor tonality. A real enrichment fo...

Nicolai Kapustin's Piano Sonata No. 8 Op. 77 was composed in 1995. In this single-movement work he develops three contrasting themes: a rhapsodic, Scriabinesque opening section, a quirky, offbeat sche...

This book presents pianists and ambitious amateur musicians with unfamiliar, surprisingly flamboyant and often