Favorite Piano Classics (Dover Music for Piano)

Description

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 Albéniz to Tchaikovsky — ready for you to play:

Albéniz: Tango in D Major

Beethoven: “Für Elise”; “Moonlight” Sonata (1st movement)

Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5

Chopin: “Minute” Waltz; Polonaise Militaire

Debussy: Clair de Lune; Golliwogg’s Cake Walk

Dvořák: 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-Saëns: The Swan

Satie: First Gymnopédie

Schubert: Marche Militaire; Serenade

Schumann: Träumerei

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.