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Complete Keyboard Works, Series One

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"His melodic imagination displays admirable freshness. He possesses a delicate harmonic sense. His themes show the inspirations of an impassioned musician: perfectly created, firm in line, vivid, and enduring in color. His art never wavers; it consistently exhibits a magnificent technique." — John Gillespie, Five Centuries of Keyboard MusicThis famous edition, prepared a century ago by Johannes Brahms and Friedrich Chrysander, presents all of the 27 keyboard suites, or Ordres, by...

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Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 6-9 Trans...

Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 6-9 Transcribed for Solo Piano

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The greatest piano virtuoso of the 19th century, Franz Liszt possessed an astonishing ability to recreate orchestral fabric at the keyboard, enabling pianists to reproduce the texture and grandeur of symphonic works. This volume is the second of Dover's two-part set of Liszt’s piano transcriptions of Beethoven's nine symphonies, reproduced from the edition authorized by Liszt himself. Its contents include Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, «Pastorale»; Symphony No. 7 in A...

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Complete Etudes for Solo Piano, Ser...

Complete Etudes for Solo Piano, Series I

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Liszt's reputation as perhaps the greatest pianist of all time is powerfully supported by his dazzling body of work for solo piano. The undiminished popularity of his etudes with pianists and audiences alike have made them among the most performed and recorded works for solo piano in the romantic repertoire.This superbly produced yet inexpensive two-volume edition presents all of Liszt's etudes as edited by the great pianist, composer, and musical scholar Ferruccio Busoni for the Franz...

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Complete Etudes for Solo Piano, Ser...

Complete Etudes for Solo Piano, Series II

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My Ladye Nevells Booke of Virginal...

William Byrd

My Ladye Nevells Booke of Virginal Music

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A smaller version of the harpsichord, the virginal enjoyed wide popularity during the 16th and 17th centuries. Based upon a 1591 manuscript of keyboard works, this collection features 42 pieces in modern notation — a vast amount of neglected concert material for modern pianists and harpsichordists — plus historic and analytic notes.

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William Byrd

Complete Keyboard Works, Series Two

Complete Keyboard Works, Series Two

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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Piano Musi...

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Piano Music

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Although best known as the sister of Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-47) was a virtuoso pianist and a composer of considerable merit in her own right. Her oeuvre of more than 400 compositions remained largely unknown for more than a century after her untimely death, and her newly rediscovered reputation as a composer rests chiefly with her piano music. This volume is the first American publication of her important early works. Reproduced directly from rare first editions, its...

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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Volu...

The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Volume Two

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The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is «the most remarkable, and in many respects the most valuable collection of Elizabethan keyboard music,» according to Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Of unknown origins, the previously scarce collector's item is now available at popular prices for the first time. The pieces herein, while composed for the virginal, can be played without difficulty on piano or any other keyboard instrument.The nearly 300 airs, variations, fantasies, toccatas,...

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Sonata in B Minor and Other Works f...

Sonata in B Minor and Other Works for Piano

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Among Franz Liszt's many brilliant compositions for piano, few have been so admired and performed as the Sonata in B Minor, long considered one of the greatest piano compositions of the 19th century. A work of consummate structural ingenuity, it combines and transforms four distinctive themes in one long movement, in the free, rhapsodic development characteristic of the symphonic poem.A great favorite of pianists and their audiences, this piano masterpiece is reprinted here from the...

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Frédéric Chopin: The Piano Concerto...

Frédéric Chopin: The Piano Concertos Arranged for Two Pianos

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This volume offers pianists a unique opportunity to study and master Chopin's two piano concertos: The Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11, and the Piano Concerto 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 brilliant shorter works on which his reputation rests today. The concerti remain among the...

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Mazurkas

Mazurkas

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Among the best-loved and most performed of Chopin's piano compositions are his mazurkas. This volume includes 51 works — remarkable for their wide emotional appeal, advanced choromatic techniques and pianistic devices, and ranging in difficulty from relatively easy, for advanced beginnings, to quite challenging, for the accomplished pianist.Edited by Carl Mikuli, a pupil of Chopin, the works in this inexpensive and attractive volume extend from the radiant joyfulness of the...

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Scarlatti Masterpieces for Solo Pia...

Domenico Scarlatti

Scarlatti Masterpieces for Solo Piano

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Born in the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach, Domenico Scarlatti strongly influenced subsequent trends in keyboard music through his uniquely elegant, embellished, fleet virtuoso style. This new compilation of popular selections by the great master presents favorites drawn from his more than 500 miniature sonatas.All of Scarlatti's familiar and best-loved masterpieces — well-known worldwide from piano recitals and CDs — appear here: tarantellas, Siciliennes, pastorals,...

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Domenico Scarlatti

Iberia and España

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Iberia and España

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Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909) began his musical life as a piano prodigy in Barcelona at the age of four, and it is as a prolific composer of solo works for the pianoforte that we celebrate him most. This inexpensive Dover edition, designed to give you a lifetime of musical enjoyment, presents two of Albéniz's best-known works in authoritative editions: the piano suite Iberia, generally considered to be his masterpiece; and España, which contains the «Tango,»...

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Keyboard Works

Henry Purcell

Keyboard Works

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Renowned for the originality of his music and his gifts as a melodist, Henry Purcell (1659–1695) was the preeminent English composer of the seventeenth century and one of the greatest that nation has ever produced. His gifts are apparent not only in the vocal and orchestral works on which his fame rests, but in his delightful keyboard music, much of which is relatively simple and easy to perform. This volume is a near-complete collection of Purcell's keyboard compositions,...

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Henry Purcell

Mephisto Waltz and Other Works for...

Mephisto Waltz and Other Works for Solo Piano

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A prolific composer and virtuoso pianist, Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was the most lionized musical personality of his time. His compositions for solo piano continue to be loved and admired by pianists and their audiences for their lush Romanticism and technical fireworks. They remain among the most frequently performed works in the repertoire. This choice selection of Liszt piano works reveals the powers at this extraordinary composer's command: Mephisto Waltz No.1; Nuages Gris;...

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Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky

The Seasons and Other Works for Sol...

The Seasons and Other Works for Solo Piano

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While better known for his great orchestral works, Tchaikovsky composed a large number of solo pieces that are loved and played by pianists the world over. This new collection, bringing together the best and most popular of these compositions, is the finest single-volume edition of Tchaikovsky's solo piano music now available.Featured in this volume are two particularly well-known works: The Seasons, Op. 37bis, a suite of 12 pieces, each bearing the name — and capturing the spirit...

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Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky

Complete Songs without Words for Pi...

Felix Mendelssohn

Complete Songs without Words for Piano

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Mendelssohn's Lieder Ohne Worte, or «Songs without Words,» is among the most loved, most played collections in the Romantic piano repertoire. Reproduced from the authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel edition, this volume contains all of these popular compositions—more than 40 pieces, including such favorites as Spinning Song, Spring Song, and Venetian Gondola Song.Composed at various points throughout his life, Mendelssohn compiled this collection of short works for...

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Felix Mendelssohn

Complete Hungarian Rhapsodies for S...

Complete Hungarian Rhapsodies for Solo Piano

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Unrivaled as a virtuoso pianist in his own day — and perhaps still — Franz Liszt was a composer of daring originality. He introduced new conceptions of harmony and melody and made radical innovations in piano technique. In a long and prolific career, he produced over 400 works for piano — brilliant compositions with flashes of eloquence and energy that evoke a full, rich orchestral sound. Best known and best loved are the Hungarian Rhapsodies.Reproduced directly...

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Complete Preludes and Etudes-Tablea...

Serge Rachmaninoff

Complete Preludes and Etudes-Tableaux

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The 24 preludes and 17 etudes-tableaux of Serge Rachmaninoff include what are possibly his finest compositions for solo piano. Each of these masterly works is included in this complete collection, reproduced from recent, authoritative Russian editions. They include: Prelude, Op. 3, No. 2; Ten Preludes, Op. 23; Thirteen Preludes, Op. 32; Eight Etudes-tableaux, Op. 33; Nine Etudes-tableaux, Op. 39. Among these are the enormously popular C-sharp minor prelude, Op. 3, No. 2; the G-minor prelude, Op....

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Serge Rachmaninoff

Complete Sonatinas for Piano

Muzio Clementi

Complete Sonatinas for Piano

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Often regarded as the father of piano technique, Clementi was the first composer to achieve the fully matured piano sonata of the late Classic period. This edition includes all 12 of the splendid miniature sonatas — so-called sonatinas — that comprise Clementi's Opp. 36, 37, and 38. Musicians and music lovers will find in this authoritative edition a rich selection of music by an innovative and influential composer.

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Muzio Clementi

Complete Works for Solo Keyboard

Жан-Филипп Рамо

Complete Works for Solo Keyboard

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A contemporary of Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, and Telemann, Jean-Phillipe Rameau (1683–1764) was a notable theorist and innovator and the preeminent French composer of his day. The depth and power that characterize his music are in ample evidence in this volume of all 63 of Rameau's works for keyboard, published between 1706 and 1741, including such well-known pieces as «Musette en Rondeau,» «Tambourin,» «Les Niais de Sologne,» «Les Cyclopes,» and «La Poule.» The music is reproduced...

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Жан-Филипп Рамо

A First Book of Beethoven

A First Book of Beethoven

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Specially arranged and simplified, these pieces offer beginners the pleasure and satisfaction of playing Beethoven. Students and teachers alike will delight in such popular melodies as «Für Elise,» «Ode to Joy,» and the haunting opening of the Moonlight Sonata.A First Book of Beethoven features 24 selections, including «Romance in F,» «Turkish March,» «Minuet in G,» and «Bagatelle in G Minor.» It includes excerpts from the sonatas — such as the opening of the 2nd movement of...

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A First Book of Tchaikovsky

A First Book of Tchaikovsky

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This collection of effortless arrangements allows beginning pianists to experience the pleasure of playing favorite Tchaikovsky compositions. Offering an inspiring mix of tempos and moods, the twenty-one simplified compositions include themes from The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and other popular works. My First Book of Tchaikovsky is a wonderful introduction to the nineteenth-century master — and a unique way for novices to expand their repertoires!...

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A First Book of American Folk Songs

A First Book of American Folk Songs

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Young pianists and their teachers will welcome this treasury of favorites in musically attractive and pedagogically sound arrangements for beginners. Bergerac has written exclusively for young pianists since 1967, including original music and many easy arrangements of folk materials. His expert settings explore a full and satisfying piano sound within the natural capabilities of the beginning performer.The songs in this varied collection — arranged in their approximate order of...

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