Classical Piano Sonatas:

Sonatinas form a vital part of the teaching material for beginner and intermediate piano students. Compared to the great classic piano sonatas, they are technically and musically simpler and typically shorter. However, they still convey the basic elements of Classical style: the relation of melody to accompaniment, articulation, stylistically authentic playing, and correct interpretation. For the two volumes of Giraffe Piano, the most favoured and instructive of the sonatinas have been chosen. Volume 1 contains simpler pieces and Volume 2 is comprised of moderately difficult ones. Correct interpretation of the pieces is facilitated by added performance and fingering marks. Learning is helped along by clear presentation of the score, carefully placed page turns, and by inspiration from colour images showing the keyboard instruments of the 1720-1820 period for which the pieces were written. The most notable of them is the giraffe piano, after which the collection is named. / Piano

Hob XVI:48-Separate edition for practical use: Sonata in C major Hob. XVI:48 opens the series of Haydn's late 'classical' piano sonatas which were to leave their marks even in Beethoven's works. The first movement testifies to a highly developed cantabile art of variation while the second radiates Haydn's typical humour.

2-CD Set-Performed by Eleanor Hancock piano Accompaniment: Eleanor Hancock piano This newly remastered and expanded 2-CD set is a treasure trove of some of the greatest classical music ever conceived for the one-piano/four-hand idiom. Many were written for his musical performances with his sister. Includes the famous Sonata in F one of the greatest piano sonatas ever written in any format. This is an essential collection for any classical pianist. Includes written primo piano parts for all four sonatas and secondo parts for the fantasias and the fuga. This new version has been expanded to include all repeats for each piece. Includes a high-quality printed music score with selectedprimo (sonatas) and secondo (fantasias and fuga) piano parts and two compact discs featuring the duet accompaniments to either primo (sonatas) or secondo (fantasias and fuga) part so you can perform the other part alongside.

Over 50 internationally celebrated pianists were invited to adopt one Haydn piano sonata each and provide it with their personal fingerings ??? a who???s who??? on the contemporary piano scene. G. Henle Publishers now presents this classic revised and with a new look to all pianists in the certainty that Haydn???s sonatas will further cement their place in the world of music. Volume I contains Haydn???s early sonatas very much still born of the spirit of the early Classical period: catchy music fun to play often at a moderate level of difficulty without which modern piano instruction would be nearly unthinkable. Time and again the authenticity of individual sonatas from this grouphas been questioned ??? the preface by Armin Raab the Scholarly Director of the Joseph Haydn Institute now provides comprehensive information on new findings regarding this important topic area.

Beethoven's Piano Sonatas are among some of the greatest writings for Solo Piano and remain firm favourites in the repertoire today. Throughout the sonatas one can sense a maturing composer whose music bridged from the elegant and precise world of Classical music to the intensely expressive and virtuosic world of Romantic music. These pieces provide a wonderful enrichment to the repertoire of any advancing and accomplished pianists.This Urtext edition of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Volume 1 provides you with the most accurate realisation of the composer's original intentions with thoroughly comprehensive and detailed editorial markings and suggestions. Thisedition has been edited by Claudio Arrau and Lothar Hoffmann-Erbrecht.This is the first of two volumes which contains sonatas from No.1-15.

Bartók taught piano at the Music Academy in Budapest from 1907 to 1934. In his first years as a professor the Budapest music publishers Rozsnyai and Rózsavölgyi commissioned him to prepare so-called instructive editions (including suggestions, commentaries and fingerings for the performer) of several classics of the piano repertoire, altogether more than two thousand pages of music. Following Bach and Beethoven, Mozart was the third classical titan of whom Bartók ventured to undertake a performing edition necessary for music education and the sheet music trade in Hungary. Károly Rozsnyai entrusted the work to him. Bartók worked on revisions of the sonatas between 1910 and 1912, and in 1912 or 1913 the pieces were published in a single-volume version. The two-volume form was published later, perhaps during the years of inflation following the First World War, on poorer quality paper and with gray cover. Bartók's editing reflects contemporary ideas about performance, but is for the most part more detailed and elaborate than in other similar instructive editions at the turn of the century.
For the present edition we have corrected known printing errors by retouching the score, and we have deleted abbreviation letters referring to analysis of the form of the sonatas, which Bartók agreed to only at the explicit request of the publisher. We have added an English translation to the footnotes in Hungarian and German. The reader's attention is drawn to significant problems of authenticity and text in new editorial footnotes.
To the new edition we have added an afterword by László Somfai which details the circumstances of the first publication, Bartók's sources and his working methods. Bartók's Mozart concept is outlined in detail, and the author reveals the problems surrounding the composer's edition and the significant distortions in the musical text, and puts into a historical context the performance indications used by Bartók. / Partitions classique / Piano - instruments à clavier / Piano / EMB (Editio Musica Budapest)

9 well-known original pieces in progressive order of difficulty with practical comments-Beethoven?s 32 piano sonatas are the ?New Testament? of music according to Hans von Bülow. Our selection here does not take things quite so solemnly because we have also taken the opportunity to show the more ?worldly? side ofthe composer with dances bagatelles the unusual character piece ?Lustig und traurig? (?Happy and sad?) and of course the indestructible ?Für Elise?. As usual in our series ?At the piano? all the pieces are arrangedprogressively from easy to medium level of difficulty. And you do not have to be in awe of Beethoven?s piano sonatas either: the highly Classical sonata in G major (essentially a sonatina) offers an ideal introduction to themany-facetted world of Beethoven?s sonatas. In contrast to this we also show Beethoven the ?poet at the piano? with the first movement of his ?Moonlight? Sonata in c-sharp minor along with the funeral march from the Sonata inA-flat major visionary creations that already point far ahead into the world of Romanticism.

Edition without fingering-The revision of the three-volume edition of Haydn???s piano sonatas also appears in a version without fingerings. Whoever wishes to study the Classical sonata canon in pure??? Urtext free from added fingering suggestions will now also find these in the Henle catalogue. Volume II contains three sets of six sonatas each more famous than the last and all replete with delightful thematic ideas ??? it is here one finds the core of Haydn???s sonata production which amateurs and professionals alike simply cannot do without!

Beethoven Haydn Mozart Schubert-This volume in Schirmer's Library Of Musical Classics contains 10 of the most popular classical Piano sonatas by Beethoven Haydn Mozart and Schubert.  Contents include: Beethoven's 'Piano Sonata in F Minor Op. 2 No. 1' and 'Sonata in C Minor Op. 10 No. 1' Haydn's 'Piano Sonata in E-flat Major Hob. XVI:52' Mozart's 'Piano Sonata in C Major K. 309' and 'Piano Sonata in A Minor K. 310' Schubert's 'Piano Sonata in A Major D.664 Op. 120' and more.

No. 1-4. Par ULLMANN VIKTOR. Ullman‘s seven Piano Sonatas were written between 1936 and 1944. Though rediscovered as recently as 1990, they are now available in a number of recordings. Neo-classical in approach, the piano writing and the use of polytonality places them closer to Skriabin and Prokofiev than to the works of Ullman‘s teachers Arnold Schoenberg and Alois Hába – this applies also to the Piano Concerto, written during the same period. The numerous quotes from Mozart, Wagner, Mahler, and Dukas to folksongs and tunes from operettas are particulary interesting in this context./ Répertoire / Piano

Four sonatas for solo Piano edited and annotated for the ABRSM by Howard Ferguson.

The Piano Sonata No. 5 in C Minor (Op.10 No.1) was written in 1798 and dedicated to Anna Margarete von Browne the wife of a Russian diplomat who was Beethoven's main patron at the time. One of his earlierworks it is in three movements: Allegro molto e con brio - Adagio molto – Prestissimo. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) was a German composer and pianist and arguably the most famouscomposer of all time. He was the last great figure of the Classical era and helped pave the way for the Romantic style that followed. His compositions include 9 Symphonies 5 Piano Concertos 1 Violin Concerto 32 Piano Sonatas and 16 String Quartets.

Rondo C major op. 51 1-The Rondo In C Major (Op.51 No.1) was published 1797 but composed earlier. Marked Moderato e grazioso it is written for solo Piano. One of Beethoven’s earlier works it exudes a youthful vigour andfreshness unencumbered by the serious maturity of his later compositions. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 1827) was a German composer and pianist and arguably the most famous composer of all time. He was the lastgreat figure of the Classical era and helped pave the way for the Romantic style that followed. His compositions include 9 Symphonies 5 Piano Concertos 1 Violin Concerto 32 Piano Sonatas and 16 String Quartets.

Virtuoso jazz in classical form: Nikolai Kapustin (b. 1937) is an excellent jazz pianist arranger and composer. His piano sonatas are now published by Schott Music for the first time. Suitable for pianists looking for technically demanding pieces between modern and jazz music which sound like highly skilled yet notated improvisation. Kapustin's monumental set of Preludes and Fugues Op.82 completed in 1997 may well be the most important work written for piano in the genre since Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87. In this sprawling collection Kapustin combines his complete mastery of jazzidioms with a thorough assimilation of contrapunctal techniques like canon imitation inversion and augmentation. Ingenuously each prelude and fugue pair share their motivic material.

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. This unique series offers students and teachers a carefully sequenced Urtext edition of Beethoven's sonatas, gradually progressing in difficulty. Each book in the series features an informative biography of Beethoven, including a moving letter he wrote to his brothers and pictures of his parents, his birthplace in Bonn, his teacher Neefe, Beethoven's music room, and more. The table of contents in each book gives additional information on some of the sonatas. Book One includes eight sonatinas for early intermediate students. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Classic - Solos / Répertoire / Piano