Selected Piano Works – Character Pieces
Piano Solo
by Stephen Heller
Piano Solo - Sheet Music

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Piano solo (Piano solo) - SMP Level 9 (Advanced)

SKU: HL.51480372

Piano Solo. Composed by Stephen Heller. Edited by Ursula Kersten. Sheet Music. Paperbound. Henle Music Folios. Pages: XIV and 87. Classical. Softcover. 102 pages. G. Henle #HN372. Published by G. Henle (HL.51480372).

ISBN 9790201803722. UPC: 884088175658. 9.25x12.25x0.341 inches.

In this volume are many small but pleasing piano pieces by the 19th-century composer Stephen Heller. The majority are of only medium difficulty, but their sound always has a particular charm. In 1853, Heller wrote to his publisher that he had not sought to “write many words” here, but wanted to suggest something “substantial and meaningful in just a few strokes.” Our volume provides valuable insights into Heller's artistic development and its entirety devoted to the “character piece”, a form that comprises the major part of his compositional output. Examples include “Die kleine Bettlerin” [the little beggar girl], “Nach erquickender Rast” [after a refreshing rest] and “Weinendes Kind” [crying child] – scenes that conjure up and express a particular mood. As Ursula Kersten writes in her preface, Heller's music already makes one think of impressionism, and repays the effort involved in getting to know the composer of this volume more closely.

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About SMP Level 9 (Advanced)

All types of major, minor, diminished, and augmented chords spanning more than an octave. Extensive scale passages.

  • No. 2 Die kleine Bettlerin and No. 3 Eglogue from Miscallanees, op. 40,2-3 (Piano solo)
  • No. 4, 5 and 6 from Traumbildner, op. 79,4-6 (Piano solo)
  • No. 2 Nach erquickender Rast from Wanderstunden, op. 80,2 (Piano solo)
  • Preludes No. 2, 15, 16 and 17 from 24 Preludes, op. 81 (Piano solo)
  • No. 9 from Blumen-, Frucht- und Dornenstucke, op. 82,9 (Piano solo)
  • No. 3 Reverie du gondolier from Trois Morceaux, op. 121,3 (Piano solo)
  • No. 1, 9 and 10 from Scenes of the childhood, op. 124,1 (Piano solo)
  • No. 5 Waldsage and No. 3 Verfolgtes Eichhornchen from Im Walde., op. 128 (Piano solo)
  • The hunting, op. 29 (Piano solo)
  • No. 5 Fragen and No. 6 Antwort from Petit Album, op. 134,5-6 (Piano solo)
  • 7 Pieces from notebook for small and big, op. 138 (Piano solo)
  • Preludes No. 6, 7, 8, 10 and 17 from 20 Preludes, op. 150 (Piano solo)