Frédéric Chopin: Sonata for Piano in B minor op. 58: Piano: Full Score

Piano Solo. This authoritative collection of the world's beloved sonatas and sonatinas for solo piano will provide the pianist with a lifetime of playing pleasure. The sonata repertoire offered here is rich and varied and presents each selection in its complete and original form.

A superb four-volume collection of over 180 solos for the intermediate level Pianist. Includes popular film and show tunes - themes and songs from top TV shows - and classical favourites from choral works, concertos, ballets, operas and symphonies. / Piano

Les plus grandes ?uvres pour Piano de Frédéric Chopin, arrangées pour les pianistes commençants. Biographies incluses / Classique / Partition /

This edition provides a valuable resource of accessiblemasterworks for busy pianists. It contains 40 piano piecesin their original form appropriate for weddings, funerals,receptions, and other events. To make the selectionsuseful as background music, only short pieces havebeen included and flashy, concert-like pieces have beenavoided. Each piece has been carefully engraved for easyreading, and approximate performance times have beenincluded to assist with planning. / Piano

The Piano Player: Classical Tear-Jerkers presents 20 of the saddest pieces of classical music, guaranteed to make you weep, specially arranged for intermediate solo piano. Contents include Un bel di vedremo from ?Madam Butterfly? by Puccini Parry and Dido?s Lament by Purcell. The striking cover features Edward Bawden?s colour linocut Aesop?s Fables: The Ant and the Grasshopper, 1970, and a 4-page pullout provides the full artwork as a beautiful collectible. The Piano Player series includes six wonderful collections of some of the greatest classical music ever written, specially arranged for the intermediate pianist, each with its own collectible pull-out poster of the stunning Edward Bawden cover artwork.

Published posthumously in 1855 the Fantaisie Impromptu In C# Minor Op. Post.66 is one of Chopin???s most frequently performed and popular compositions.There was initially some mystery surroundingthe piece and why Chopin never published it during his lifetime. James Huneker trying to explain why the piece was not published calls parts of it 'mawkish' and 'without nobility' whilst Ernst Oster writes that atechnical exploration would show why Chopin did not publish the work and that exploration shows that the Fantaisie-Impromptu and Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata ('Quasi una fantasia') are related.Themystery may have been solved in 1960 when pianist Arthur Rubinstein acquired the 'Album of the Baroness d'Este' which had been sold at auction in Paris. The album contained a manuscript of the Fantaisie-Impromptu written in Chopin's own hand and dated 1835. The title page for the manuscript states that the piece was 'Composed for the Baroness d'Este by Fr?d?ric Chopin' and from this Rubinstein surmises that the words 'Composedfor' in place of a dedication imply that Chopin received a paid commission for the work.This Henle Urtext Edition for solo Piano has been edited by Ewald Zimmermann and includes fingering by Hans-MartinTheopold.

This work an unusual venture outside his favoured Piano Solo medium was written towards the end of the composer's tragically short life.

Chopin n?a laiss? qu?un petit nombre d??uvres adoptant la forme sonate forme pr?pond?rante de la p?riode classique: outre le trio avec piano de ses jeunes ann?es on y trouve les deux con-certos et les trois sonates pour piano ainsi que la sonate tardive op. 65 pour violoncelle. Les deux sonates pour piano op. 35 et 58 comptent d?ailleurs parmi ses ?uvres les plus significa-tives. Chopin composa la sonate en si mineur op. 58 en 1844 alors qu?il s?journait au domaine de George Sand ? Nohant. L??uvre est peut-?tre un peu plus conventionnelle que la sonate ant?rieure en si b?mol mineur. Mais contrairement ? l?opinion parfois exprim?e selon laquelle il n??tait pas ? l?aiseavec la forme sonate stricte Chopin y d?montre une ma?trise parfaite lui permettant de s?exprimer ? travers elle tout aussi intens?ment et de mani?re aussi authentique que dans les pi?ces de caract?re romantiques de moindre envergure.