My First Book Of Bach contains twenty-six favourite pieces in easy piano arrangements edited by David Dutkanicz.Students of all ages will delight in these simple piano arrangements of familiar melodies such as Jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring Wachet Auf and highlights from the Brandenburg Concertos Goldberg Variations and Inventions plus menuets gavottes bourees and other fun-to-play pieces all gathered together here to demonstrate the beauty enjoyment and skill of J.S. Bach's compositions.

This volume includes 'Ma Mere L'oye' (Mother Goose) 'Valse Nobles Et Sentimentales' and Ravel's own piano transcription of his world-famous 'La Valse'. Intermediate and advanced pianists will welcome this superb compilation of piano classics reproduced from authoritative French scores.

Edited by Clara Schumann-Fifteen works including 'Symphonic Etudes Op. 13' 'Fantasy In C Major Op. 17' and 'Intermezzi Op. 4'.

Urtext-The new Mozart: Sonatas Fantasies And Rondos Urtext Edition features selected sonatas rondos fantasies and variations for Piano composed by Mozart and painstakingly engraved by Ephraim HammettJones.Printed to precisely reproduce the composer's original intentions Mozart: Sonatas Fantasies And Rondos Urtext Edition features a dozen of Mozart's works. This initial volume contains the first ninesonatas and is suitable for intermediate to advanced pianists of all ages.

Including the Transcendental Etudes Ed. Busoni-Liszt's reputation as perhaps the greatest pianist of all time is powerfully supported by his dazzling body of work for solo piano. The undiminished popularity of his etudes with pianists and audiences alike have made them among the most performed and recorded works for solo piano in the Romantic reportoire. The first volume Series 1 include many of Liszt's most inspired piano works and are edited by the great pianist composer and musical scholar Ferruccio Busoni for the Franz Liszt Society and published by Breitkopf and Hartel in Leipzig in 1910-11. Each set of Etudes is a highly successful work in its own terms and are all fiendishly difficult. The separate ' Mazeppa' isyet another working of one of the etudes from these sets. The individual etudes range dramatically in style from the delicate refinement of 'Feux Follets' to the startling bravura of 'Wilde Jagd' (both from Transcendental Etudes). Each will bring to pianists and their listeners a moving encounter with the genius of this towering musical personality

This superb volume brings together in one authoritative playing edition one of the most important segments of Faure's works for piano: all of his nine preludes five Impromptus and four Valse-Caprices. Each of these distinctive compositions reveal Faure's lyrical melodic gifts and innovative harmonies. Pianists of intermediate and advanced skills will find in this volume a unique opportunity to explore one of the most gifted and influential composers of the French School.

For the Beginning Pianist with Downloadable MP3s-Now even the often-challenging works of the last of Russia's Romantic composers are accessible to beginning pianists. Rachmaninoff's music can be daunting to those just starting out but these simple arrangements focus on the composer's melodies and style. The more abstract works are excerpted and presented in manageable samples and the keys are simplified. Suggested fingerings are also provided.The collection features easy-to-play versions of 'Vocalise'; Prelude in C-sharp Minor Op. 3 No. 2 ('Bells of Moscow'); the second movement of the Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor Op. 18 (Theme); Nocturne No. 1 in F-sharp Minor and Nocturne No. 3 in C Minor; Morceaux de Salon No. 3 Op. 10; Variations of a Theme of Corelli; and other selections.In addition to the piano arrangements the compilation includes a free MP3 download for every piece which will help students develop an ear for the melodies. The MP3s may be downloaded individually or collectively.

Chopin's piano works renowned for their technical brilliance also invariably project the composer's mercurial moods. Their complex emotional content often lies close to the surface: a sparkling and graceful passage may be tinged with melancholy a dark moment may be crowned with a note of triumph. This superb collection of fifteen of Chopin's works for piano reflects these compelling qualities in some of the greatest piano compositions of the Romantic period.

Liszt's admiration for the music of Wagner led him to promote Wagner's Operas as well as to compose piano transcriptions from many of them. This volume presents fifteen compositions dating from 1848-1882. Includes 'Liebestod' 'Overture To Tannhouser' 'Wedding March From Lohengrin'.

And New England Idyls-Edward MacDowell (1860 1908) was America's most prominent nineteenth-century composer. Championed by Franz Liszt he was one of the first U.S. composers to gain international recognition. A leading exponent of theRomantic tradition he was a prolific composer for the Piano. This outstanding collection presents his best most characteristic works reprinted from original editions. They include:Woodland Sketches Op.51Sea Pieces Op. 55Fireside Tales Op. 61New England Idyls Op. 62These beautiful and affecting compositions reflect not only MacDowell's poetic Romanticism but also hisvirtuosic skills as a pianist which won him an international reputation as a concert artist. Intermediate- and advanced-level pianists will appreciate the lyric intensity and ebullient spirit of these pieces.

This volume reproduces directly from an authoritative Russian edition the famous cycle of solo piano works that comprises a summa of Liszt's pianistic achievement.

An influential early Romantic composer for piano John Field (1782-1837) redefined the term 'nocturne.' Field's dreamy poetic style exerted a lasting effect on such later composers as Chopin Liszt and Schumann. This collection brings together the most popular and often performed of Field's nocturnes along with a selection of his most important solo piano works.

With these transcriptions intermediate to advanced pianists can re-create the texture and grandeur of these final symphonies by the 19th-century melodic masterContents4th Symphony in F Minor Opus 365th Symphony in E Minor Opus 646th Symphony in B Minor ('Pathetique') Opus 74

The most ambitious in scale of Brahms' pieces for piano solo the sonatas and variations are contained complete within this volume. The music is reproduced directly from the definitive Vienna Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde edition.

Taking its title from the well-known and much-loved orchestral work Danse Macabre this collection is one that pianists and all students of music will cherish.