Sheet Music for Piano

In his many Ecossaises for piano, Ludwig van Beethoven proves that he could write vivacious dance music. The 'ecossaise', originally a Scottish country dance, was very popular in a more developed form...

His things for clavier are incomparable, and almost indispensable to those familiar with the keyboard', was the judgment of music theorist Johann Anton Scheibe in 1743 when discussing George Frideric...

Antonio Soler composed more than 500 sacred choral musical pieces in his native Spain. Today, though, it is his 200-or-so keyboard sonatas that are arousing the curiosity of performers. Our anthology...

Domenico Scarlatti is today considered as one of music history's great piano composers, and the first piano virtuoso ever. Just like the first two volumes (HN 395 and 451) of selected keyboard sonatas...

Everywhere only confused combinations of figures, dissonances, passages - in short, for us torture' - Schumann certainly did not deserve this contemporary slating. He only published the opening moveme...

It was in February 1854, a few weeks before Robert Schumann's admission to the psychiatric hospital in Endenich, that he wrote his variations on a theme in E-flat major. Because of the extraordinary,...

The polonaise was a fashionable dance form not only in Chopin and Liszt's time, for Johann Sebastian Bach's son Wilhelm Friedemann had already brought this Polish national dance to a high-point. His t...

The polonaise was a fashionable dance form not only in Chopin and Liszt's time, for Johann Sebastian Bach's son Wilhelm Friedemann had already brought this Polish national dance to a high-point. His t...

In his collections of Impromptus and Moments musicaux, Franz Schubert impressively showed at the end of his life how a lyrical, songlike form can be rendered on the piano. In spite of their simplicity...

It was not his large piano sonatas, but rather his short, characteristic pieces that established Franz Schubert's fame. Like his art songs, they too are full of spontaneous, lyrical inspiration. The t...

Antonín Dvořák's piano works are generally overshadowed by his symphonies and chamber music works, especially since those from around 1880 are very much oriented around Schubert, Chopin and Schumann....

Franck wrote almost all of his important works in his later years. This almost 20-minute-long cycle from 1884 is his best-known piano composition and is often played on concert platforms to this day....

From the late 1760s onwards Mozart repeatedly composed series of dance movements for orchestra. Demand for this occasional music, which really was intended for dancing, increased in the winter months,...

Bach's Six Partitas form what is presumably the most famous and challenging collection of suites in music history. Bach was aware of the weightiness of his cycle as he initially had these multi-moveme...

Liszt's most important piano work was written in 1853, during a time of great compositional productivity and at the same time as the Ballade in B minor. It has something in common with the latter work...

Next to the Moonlight and the Waldstein Sonatas, the Appassionata is no doubt the most celebrated of Beethoven's piano sonatas and claims, with the latter two works, a new high point in the composer's...

Revised edition replaces HN360. Fingering: Michael Schneidt Bach's three-part Sinfonias acquaint pianists of every age with the art of playing three equal parts with just two hands - a true phenomenon...

Franz Liszt was a Schubert fan his whole life. In his concerts he performed Schubert’s songs in transcriptions for piano solo with such great effect that publishers also took notice. Thus, from 1838,...

Mozart's only piano sonata in E-flat major was probably written during his stay in Munich in early 1775. Its first movement - an Adagio, unconventionally - is one of those pieces by the young genius t...

This 'No. 1' of Mozart's eighteen total piano sonatas is nevertheless not the very first one that he composed. It is well known that the 'Wunderkind' Mozart had previously written at least four piano...

Curiously enough, only one of Mozart's eighteen piano sonatas (and also only one of his 23 piano concerti) is in the pianistically rewarding key of G major: the sonata K. 283. It numbers among those s...

Whoever has experienced a major pianist performing this sonata live (the slow 'Andante cantabile' middle movement is occasionally played as an encore) knows the grandeur and effect of this C major wor...

From Mozart's letters we know that he made firm plans in the summer of 1789 to earn money by composing six new easy piano sonatas for Princess Friederike of Prussia. Only this one was written, however...

The op. 7 Sonata was Grieg's first major piano work. While traditional in form and structure, its originality is expressed through the incorporation of elements from Scandinavian dances and folk tunes...

Reger's 'Five Humoresques' follow in the footsteps of the nineteenth-century genre inaugurated by Robert Schumann's 'Humoresque', op. 20. Occasionally Reger gives vent to high-spirited good humor, as...