Simplest for Piano

Bach's five most playable two and three part inventions. Originally intended to be played by Bach's children on the Clavier, these pieces have since been adopted the world over as an indespensible com...

Few composers could capture such tenderness and introspection as Brahms. The Intermezzi from Eight Klavierstücke, Op. 76 are miniature masterpieces, blending noble melodies, rich harmonies and moments...

Few composers have written for the piano with greater poetry and elegance than Frédéric Chopin. His Nocturnes are among the most cherished works in the piano repertoire, renowned for their singing mel...

Muzio Clementi's Sonatinas for piano were among the earliest keyboard works to embrace the expressive possibilities of the newly emerging pianoforte, rather than the harpsichord. Their graceful melodi...

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) is rightly celebrated as one of the great architects of the Classical style. During a remarkably long and productive career, he composed over sixty piano sonatas, works...

The seven miniatures in this volume have been carefully selected and sympathetically simplified to provide an accessible introduction to Mendelssohn's piano music. As with all titles in the Simplest S...

The Viennese composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828) learned to play the piano, violin and viola as a boy, even performing the viola in the family string quartet. Although he lived for just thirty-one yea...

The African American spiritual is one of the richest and most enduring musical traditions in history. Born from the faith, resilience and hope of enslaved African Americans during the eighteenth and n...

Bach's five most playable two and three part inventions. Originally intended to be played by Bach's children on the Clavier, these pieces have since been adopted the world over as an indespensible com...

Few composers could capture such tenderness and introspection as Brahms. The Intermezzi from Eight Klavierstücke, Op. 76 are miniature masterpieces, blending noble melodies, rich harmonies and moments...

Few composers have written for the piano with greater poetry and elegance than Frédéric Chopin. His Nocturnes are among the most cherished works in the piano repertoire, renowned for their singing mel...

Muzio Clementi's Sonatinas for piano were among the earliest keyboard works to embrace the expressive possibilities of the newly emerging pianoforte, rather than the harpsichord. Their graceful melodi...

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) is rightly celebrated as one of the great architects of the Classical style. During a remarkably long and productive career, he composed over sixty piano sonatas, works...

The seven miniatures in this volume have been carefully selected and sympathetically simplified to provide an accessible introduction to Mendelssohn's piano music. As with all titles in the Simplest S...

The Viennese composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828) learned to play the piano, violin and viola as a boy, even performing the viola in the family string quartet. Although he lived for just thirty-one yea...

The African American spiritual is one of the richest and most enduring musical traditions in history. Born from the faith, resilience and hope of enslaved African Americans during the eighteenth and n...