Piano for Beginners

Friedrich Zehm, pupil of composition with Harald Genzmer, primarily wrote chamber music for music lessons, easy recital pieces and piano music. He was less interested in the practising of playing tech...

During her time at the Munich Youth Music School in the 1960s, the composer Barbara Heller, born in 1936, wrote numerous piano works for beginners and advanced pupils. Being an experienced teacher, sh...

Hans-Günter Heumann, Germany's best known author of piano books, has made himself a dream come true with his debut album Live Your Dream. After his best-selling publications in the field of music educ...

Piano to go' is ideal for people who practically have no time to play the piano, who just have time to buy a coffee to go, but as long as it is still hot - for two, three minutes - they could well sit...

In this second album composed by top arranger Hans-Günter Heumann ('Klavierspielen - mein schönstes Hobby', 'Pianotainment') for solo piano, he takes a look at the bright and the dark sides of emotion...

Das Stück Gassenhauer ist Teil des Carl Orff'schen Schulwerks. In dieser Bearbeitung für Klavier wird die aus Film und Fernsehen berühmte Melodie von Variation zu Variation gewaltiger und gipfelt in e...

Barbara Heller opens a new world of etudes by combining finger technique with vocal quality. Pianist and teacher Irina Schwertfeger presents all these studies in progressive order from easy to difficu...

A supplemental volume of repertoire to accompany the second volume of the French language piano method, À vous de jouer!. Specially selected to provide an interesting, enjoyable and diverse range of p...

Increasing numbers of recent studies provide evidence that learning to play an instrument stimulates the intelligence and promotes a general aptitude for learning. Paul Dessau realised this as early a...

The studies and study works by Carl Czerny (1791-1857) are part of the standard repertoire of piano lessons. These collections count among the most popular and most important works in piano education.

For centuries, people have written diaries, confiding in them how much money they had spent on cigarettes or how delightful the walk the previous evening had been. Composers write music in their diari...

Language lessons in music! Much of the available contemporary piano repertoire is quite inaccessible to pupils of moderate technical abilities. With this in mind, Anne-Lise Gastaldi & Valérie Halu...

With an output of over 400 compositions, it helps to get an early start! Universal Edition presents a 1967 piano set from then-15-year-old Wolfgang Rihm, who would become one of Europe's leading light...

Ten new pieces for piano inspired by masterpieces in the Louvre

The Mauricio Kagel Composition Competition was held for the second time in 2013. Its goal is to solicit the best in contemporary writing for piano, yet within reach of young piano students. 258 compos...

The term 'xtreme' is often used in sports to indicate feats that go beyond the ordinary. The pieces in the Solo Xtreme series were written to encourage piano students to achieve similar feats. Pieces...

A variety of moods, color and style are explored in this wonderful collection of supplementary solos by Martha Mier. Each volume contains seven pieces which help the student feel the mood of the music...

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