Favorite Piano Classics

By Ronald Herder

Book Overview

Pianists at all levels will enjoy having this treasury of the world's best-loved piano pieces in one handy, inexpensive volume. Included are 83 all-time favorites by 40 composers -- from Alb niz to Tchaikovsky -- ready for you to play:
Alb niz: Tango in D Major
Beethoven: "F r Elise"; "Moonlight" Sonata (1st movement)
Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5
Chopin: "Minute" Waltz; Polonaise Militaire
Debussy: Clair de Lune; Golliwogg's Cake Walk
Dvoř k: Humoresque in G-flat Major
Joplin: The Entertainer; Maple Leaf Rag
Liszt: Liebestraum No. 3 in A-flat Major
MacDowell: To a Wild Rose
Mendelssohn: Spinning Song
Mozart: Turkish Rondo; Sonata in C Major
Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C-sharp Minor
Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess
Saint-Sa ns: The Swan
Satie: First Gymnop die
Schubert: Marche Militaire; Serenade
Schumann: Tr umerei
Strauss: "On the Beautiful Blue Danube"
Tchaikovsky: Chanson Triste
... and many, many more.
Most of these pieces are brief and well within the technical range of intermediate players. Reproduced from authoritative editions, they offer a wonderful opportunity for pianists to study, practice, and play the world's most beautiful and time-honored compositions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486291529
• ISBN13: 9780486291529
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 10.9"