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 si…

With his 'Lyric Pieces?, Edvard Grieg was writing a kind of poetic piano diary: between 1867 and 1901 he composed 66 short character pieces, published in ten books. Pieces such as 'Wedding Day at Troldhaugen?, 'March of the dwarfs? or 'To the spring? are among Grieg's best-known works. Alongside these fairly virtuosic pieces there are also numerous simpler dances and melodies that can be played at…

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The Complete Piano Player: Rachmaninoff contains 17 pieces by the renowned composer, newly arranged for easy Piano.Many of Sergei Rachmaninoff's compositions prominently featured the Piano, the instrument upon which he excelled as a performer both in his native Russia and later as an émigré in Europe and the US. The seventeen pieces collected here reflect his fondness for song-like melodies and su…

Par CHOPIN FREDERIC. Pedagogical in nature, these editions offer insightful interpretive suggestions, pertinent fingering, and historical and stylistic commentary. The name Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) is synonymous with the Piano. Indeed, every one of his compositions includes the instrument. His Preludes, several of which are of only moderate difficulty, show superb polish and inventive detail. S…

Malats composed many pieces of salon music of which Serenata Espagnole with its thrilling virtuoso passages and Iberian exoticism is the most enduring. Serenata Espagnole is most frequently performed as a classical Guitar piece and has been recorded frequently over the years.Joaquin Malats was a highly regarded pianist of the early 20th century. A native of Barcelona he was a prize-winning …

Par DOBRZYNSKI IGNACY FELIKS. Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski wrote eight nocturnes for piano. Five of them were published in 1833–1834 in two books as Opp. 21 and 24, while the remainder appeared in various occasional collections issued much later. The Nocturne in A major was written in 1846 and belongs to the group of works composed by Dobrzynski during his tour of German cities. That tour was designed…

Arranged For Two Pianos: The Joseff Edition-This volume offers pianists the opportunity to study and master Chopin's two piano concertos No.1 in E Minor Op.11 and No.2 in F Minor Op.21. Although the composer wrote both works to launch his career as a concert artist he soon abandoned the concert hall for the more intimate atmosphere of the salon and turned his creative attentions to the brilli…

Characterized by editor Sara Davis Buechner as 'elegant Romantic salon music of the Russian school subtly genteel with early impressionistic shadings ' the piano music of Anton Arensky formed the foundation of works by Rachmaninoff and Scriabin. Both of the latter-day composers were Arensky's pupils and their teacher's music contains the seeds of Rachmaninoff's idiomatic pianistic style and Scr…