Piano Pieces for the Adult Student

By Maxwell Eckstein

Book Overview

(Music Sales America). One of the great collections for the piano, the pieces are graded for elementary, intermediate, and advanced students. Piano works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Schumann, and other masters. Folk songs and light classics are also included. (EFS4/EFS 4)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082562004X
• ISBN13: 9780825620041
• Release Date: January 1962
• Publisher: Music Sales
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.1" x 11.9"

Customer Reviews

pretty danged difficult

This collection sounds a lot easier than it really is. If you can really play the pieces in it, you're probably not a "student" anymore. Since the terms "easy" and "difficult," when applied to piano literature, are recklessly applied to widely disparate material, the only objective anchor I can give you is this: Do you know the Alfred's Adult Piano course? All of these pieces belong in the "ambitious section" of the third book -- if not far thereafter. The way I see it, it's really not much of a student's book: no help with explanations or editorial assistance. It's simply an anthology of classics of piano literature in their original forms.

Old favorite

I have always loved this book. It has pieces for beginners up to early advanced players. My favorites are Chopin's waltzes and June Barcarolle by Tsaichovsky. Good for leisurely playing, and for some challenging pieces. No modern pieces here, though.

Piano Pieces for the Adult Student

Loved it. It makes you want to practice and play each one of those pieces. Right now I'm on Beethoven's Moonlight Sonate.