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Sonatas Op. 31, Nos. 1-3; Op 49, Nos. 1-2; Op. 53; Op. 54; Op. 57; Op. 78; Op. 79; Op. 81a; Op. 90; Op. 101; Op. 106; Op. 109; Op. 110; Op. 111. 315 pgs.

Beethoven wrote 32 sonatas for piano. Volume 2, edited by Stewart Gordon, includes Sonatas 9--15 (Op. 14, Nos. 1--2; Op. 22; Op. 26; Op. 27, Nos. 1--2; and Op. 28), written between 1798 and 1801 and published shortly after they were written. Of the...

Schirmer Performance Editions are designed for piano students and their teachers as well as for professional pianists. Pedagogical in nature, these editions offer insightful interpretive suggestions, pertinent fingering, and historical and stylistic...

Also referred to as "The Farewell Waltz," this work presents a tender musical intimacy in its light and delicate texture and its beautiful, wandering melodies. Chopin presented a copy of this waltz as a farewell gift to Marie Wodzinska, to whom Chopin...

Chopin's famous Waltz is presented in this Willard Palmer edition, complete with information about the composer, performance suggestions, and editorial additions in gray print.

Widely known as "The Minute Waltz," this scholarly edition by Willard A. Palmer is based on Chopin's original manuscripts, with numerous footnotes, historical information, and editorial additions included in contrasting gray print.

Time and again, Chopin succeeded in giving different piano music genres their own individual characters, whether etudes, preludes, waltzes, scherzi or nocturnes. The Irishman John Field had already composed over 20 nocturnes, which presumably greatly...

Titles: No. 7, Valenciana * No. 8, Asturiana * No. 9, Mazurca * No. 10, Danza Triste * No. 11, Zambra * No. 12, Arabesca.

These three volumes, in practical urtext-pedagogical editions, are designed with the idea that these precious works will be performed on the modern piano. With respect to the original text, Dr. Hinson offers many valuable, stylistically faithful...

These three volumes, in practical urtext-pedagogical editions, are designed with the idea that these precious works will be performed on the modern piano. With respect to the original text, Dr. Hinson offers many valuable, stylistically faithful...

Each of Bach's six French suites is written in a different key with no harmonic relationship to one another, unlike most of his other works. Within each suite, all of the movements are in the same key and follow standard binary form. In the traditional...