Sheet Music for Piano

Dario Faini is an Italian pianist, composer, producer and musician. He adopted the pseudonym Dardust, with the goal of creating music that combines neoclassical and electronic sounds. The chosen name...

The Russian school of piano playing is legendary. This anthology explores some of its many secrets by proposing a collection of pieces, presented in order of progressive difficulty, from the literatur...

Ezio Bosso's Sonata No. 1 in G minor is a fundamental stage in the journey through his music. It was created while the musician was in that 'unpleasant' room (that of his illness) which sometimes beca...

Although people might like to think that the 'English Suites' were composed after the 'French Suites' (HN 71), 'the temperamental and in part virtuoso flow of these Suites is more characteristic of th...

With opuses 1, 2, 4, 5, and 10, this volume contains virtually all of Johannes Brahms' early piano oeuvre, with which the budding composer and pianist introduced himself to the public. The Scherzo op....

Although people might like to think that the 'English Suites' were composed after the 'French Suites', 'the temperamental and in part virtuoso flow of these Suites is more characteristic of the musica...

This middle piece of the early set of three early sonatas op. 2 dedicated to Joseph Haydn was probably composed in the winter of 1794/95. To this day it stands - unjustly -- in the shadow of its more...

As with the three sonatas that form opus 2, the trio of works forming opus 10, written between 1796 and 1798, offers a collection of three sonatas with entirely different characters. With its distinct...

Composed in 1800, this work was published two years later under the title 'Grande Sonate' in order to demonstrate the resumption of an earlier, four-movement sonata model. Beethoven proudly announced...

This small volume comprises three variation cycles of Beethoven's which are brought together in Urtext editions that are technically fairly easy to master (level of difficulty 3-5). Two of them, the V...

Haydn's E-flat major Sonata is connected to no fewer than two great female musicians and musical centres: according to its autograph it was written in London in 1794 for the pianist Therese Jansen, wh...

Haydn's piano sonatas were long disseminated solely in the form of copies; it was not until 1774 that a printed edition also appeared, containing the sonatas Hob. XVI:21-26 and dedicated to Haydn's ar...

Like the 'Eroica Variations' op. 35, the Variations op. 34, were composed in 1802 on an original theme. The 'new fashion' Beethoven declared for both works to his publisher becomes apparent in opus 34...

After his 15 Hungarian peasant songs (HN1404), these Improvisations on Hungarian peasant songs are the second of Bartók's works to feature the words 'Hungarian peasant songs' in their title. The manne...

This Haydn sonata has previously not been available in the Henle catalogue as an individual Urtext edition. Nevertheless, it numbers among Haydn's famous piano works. It was written in 1789 (thus maki...

In Schubert's cheerful E flat major Sonata, the listener is unaware that the composer struggled for a long time to arrive at its final version. Initial sketches date back to 1817, then still in a thre...

Franz Schubert’s Piano Sonata op. 143 in a minor was composed in February 1823 following his large “Wanderer Fantasy”. With its formal coherence and mature originality, the a-minor Sonata initiated a...

This masterpiece's famous nickname 'Appassionata' (the passionate) does not stem from Beethoven, but was assigned to the sonata by posterity. However, it could hardly be more appropriate! Beethoven's...

Selections of individual numbers or scenes from large-scale stage works have always been a tried and tested means of making operas or incidental music accessible to a wider audience. Thus, even before...

In the second volume, Italie, published in 1858, of the three-part Années de pèlerinage the great names of Italian art and poetry occupy centre stage. Among these was also Petrarch and his collection...