Product Description: Beginning pianists of all ages will cherish this excellent compilation of beloved piano classics. Each piece has been carefully selected and simplified to help students develop their skills. The special arrangements offer novices the pleasure and satisfaction of playing music that's usually beyond their grasp...read more

Product Description: Beginning pianists of all ages will cherish this excellent compilation of classics. Each piece was carefully selected and simplified to help students develop their skills. Many of the greatest composers — J. S. Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, and others — are represented by several pieces each, some newly adapted for the piano...read more

Product Description: Familiar from its use as a method of teaching composition, its frequent appearances in sacred music, and as a form favored by many of classical music's greatest composers, the fugue bears a rich variety of associations. This unique collection represents a concise history of the form, with keyboard arrangements of great fugues from the seventeenth century onward, including a generous selection of pieces from its heyday during the Baroque period...read more

Product Description: Famous and frequently performed, these piano etudes range from the era of early Romanticism to the twentieth century. The collection also touches upon the genre's growth, from solitary technical exercises to concert mainstays.Contents include a series of Chopin etudes; pieces by Liszt, including Etudes for Transcendental Technique after Paganini; Schumann's Paganini Etudes and Symphonic Etudes; Three Etudes by Mendelssohn; Brahms' Piano Study after an Etude by Chopin; Six Etudes by Saint Saëns, plus the composer's Six Etudes for the Left Hand; and Rubinstein's "Ondine...read more

Product Description: The prelude has long been a favorite form for composers to work in, whether as introductions to fugues or as independent concert pieces. This unique collection offers a wide survey of famous preludes, from works by John Bull and Orlando Gibbons to those of Ravel and Rachmaninoff, plus examples of all styles in between...read more

Product Description: Unique and comprehensive, this collection features a tremendous variety of slow movements for keyboard players, consisting of 60 pieces that span three centuries. Pianists will discover the music of many moods, from dreamlike nocturnes and lullabies to moving elegies and romantic slow dances, all reproduced from authoritative editions...read more