Advanced Sheet Music for Piano

Perhaps Schumann's greatest large-scale piano work, the 'Fantasie' was written between 1836 and 1838 and dedicated to Franz Liszt. Intensely personal, it contains many melodic references to Schumann's...

Schumann's Symphonic Etudes is one of the most astounding musical accomplishments of the 19th century. The set consists of a theme, seven variations and a lengthy finale. This work is as significant f...

Eight contrasing pieces with descriptive titles comprise the 'Fantasy Pieces', op. 12. Although the eight pieces form a homogeneous whole, each can be played individually without loss of effect. They...

This set of five pieces reflects an intensely personal, realistic and sensitive portrayal of animal life, the sea and pastoral landscapes. Powerfully poetic and vividly descriptive, the music exhibits...

Dedicated to Gabriel Faure, Ravel prefaces this piece of 'liquid poetry' with a line by Henri de Regnier: 'The river god laughs at the water as it tickles him.' Ravel indicated that he wanted the work...

One of Debussy's most ambitious Impressionistic sea-pieces for piano, composed in the summer of 1904 when he was visiting an island in the English Channel. Ravel called this piece 'an orchestral reduc...

Two Scriabin compositions are presented here for performance by the left hand only, with performance notes and practice suggestions included. For pianists of advanced proficiency these will represent...

In this edition, Palmer provides fingering and offers suggestions for the performance of ornaments and other markings as revealed through the study of original sources. The introductory material inclu...

Mozart composed only two sonatas in minor keys and it has been suggested that the dark quality of this A minor sonata was influenced by events surrounding the death of Mozart's mother. The three movem...

Rachmaninoff presents here a humorous musical play for the piano which will display a great variety of touches, dynamics and tempos. The composer's own performance of this piece displays a great range...

Maurice Hinson's Masterwork Edition of Liszt's perhaps best-known Hungarian Rhapsody contains historic information and performance notes, as well as alternate cadenzas and ossia notations.

Debussy does not link his "12 Préludes" of the first volume by a tonal scheme, but by a chain of associative mottos or titles which he leaves at the end of each piece and which may give an indication...

Three years after the publication of the first volume, the second volume of Debussy's Préludes appeared in 1913, reflecting the impression of Stravinsky's music. In his new Urtext edition, musicologis...

It was unmistakably Liszt's piano work "Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este" that inspired Ravel to write one of his most famous works in 1901. The piece is formally conceived as a sonata form, dominated...

Ravel's cycle of "Valses nobles et sentimentales" caused irritation at the anonymous premiere in 1911 at the Société nationale indépendante in Paris: many suspected Satie or even Kodály as the compose...

Piano music is of central importance in Fauré's oeuvre. He dedicated his "Ballade", composed in 1879, to his teacher Camille Saint-Saëns. It breaks with the epic form of the genre both through its lyr...

Fauré's '13 Barcarolles', composed over a period of almost four decades (1882-1921), are highly representative of his piano oeuvre and are considered his most characteristic works. They reflect his mo...

Fauré's four "Valses-Caprices" (1882/83-1894) (BA 10843) reflect various forms of his exploration of the waltz in connection with the free form of the caprice. The composer therefore received inspirat...

With the two sonatas of his Opus 27, Beethoven broke new formal ground at the beginning of the 19th century. Each named Sonata quasi una Fantasia, the second in particular became immortal under its la...

Beethoven's final three piano sonatas have always been a source of great fascination. Composed in 1820, the Sonata op. 109 opened the door to the future with its extreme expressivity, its abandonment...

Beethoven's last three piano sonatas have always exerted a great fascination. With the Sonata op. 109, composed in 1820, Beethoven opens the door to the future - through the highest expressivity, the...

Composed in 1803/04, Beethoven's Sonata in C major op. 53 marks his move towards a large-scale, symphonic piano movement. The highly virtuosic work, which Beethoven dedicated to his friend and patron...

The three popular sonatas op. 10 were composed between the end of 1795 and the beginning of 1798, only a short time after Beethoven's first complete sonata oeuvre op. 2. They were heralded in the pres...

This new edition replaces the existing edition (BA 5634). Schubert's Sonata in B flat major was composed in 1828 and is probably the last instrumental work he ever completed. The Urtext edition, edite...