Favorite Piano Classics (Paperback)

by Ronald Herder (Editor)

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Product Description
Treasury of 83 best-loved pieces in authoritative editions: Beethoven’s "Für Elise," Chopin’s "Minute" Waltz and Polonaise Militaire, Debussy’s Clair de Lune, Liszt’s Liebestraum No. 3, Mozart’s Turkish Rondo, Ravel’s Pavane for a Dead Princess, plus works by Grieg, Granados, Haydn, Satie, Tchaikovsky and many more. Most pieces fairly brief, well within reach of intermediate players.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications (July 12, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486291529
• ISBN-13: 978-0486291529
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #604,115 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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176 of 176 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE MOST FOR YOUR MONEY!!!, September 3, 1999

By A Customer

This collection of piano classics is very special! I am a pianist myself, and the very first piece I learned was Maple Leaf Rag! Just about every major classical piece is in here!: Bach's wonderful "Prelude in C", Beethoven's "Für Elise" & "Moonlight Sonata", Brahms' "Hungarian Dance No. 5", Chopin's "Minute Waltz", Debussy's "Clair de Lune" & "Gollywog's Cake Walk", two pieces from Grieg's "Peer Gynt", Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" & "The Entertainer", Liszt's "Liebestraum", Mozart's "Sonata in C", two pieces from Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition", Rachmaninoff's "Prelude in C#m", Ravel's "Pavane", Satie's "First Gymnopédie", Schubert's "Marche Militaire", Sinding's "Rustle of Spring", J. Strauss Jr.'s "Blue Danube" and many, many more! Wow! As you can see there are ALOT of excellent pieces in this book (83 total)! Herder did an excellent job at picking out these pieces! If you enjoy playing classical piano or just like collecting sheet music this book is for you! WARNING: This book is NOT for beginners. Alot of the pieces contained in this book are intended for intermediate to advanced pianists. Don't expect to find "Hot Cross Buns" or "Chopsticks" in here! Be prepared to play some pretty hard stuff! If you are a "beginner" I suggest you start with: Bach's "Prelude in C Major" (p.6), Beethoven's "Minuet in G Major" (p.18), Gluck's "Ballet Air" (p.79), Handel's "Hornpipe in E Minor" (p.96) & "Sarabande in D Minor" (p.97), MacDowell's "To a Wild Rose" (p.126), Mozart's "Two Early Minuets" (p.144), and Rameau's "Minuet in A Minor" (p.173). [Hardest are: Chabrier's "Mélancolie" (p.30), Liszt's "Liebestraum" (p.120), Rachmaninoff's "Prelude in C#m" (p.169), Ravel's "Pavane" (p.176), and Sinding's "Rustle of Spring".] All in all this book is a MUST for any serious classical pianist. Buy the book. Play the pieces. You'll be glad you did!

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for intermediate and above, May 15, 2002

By	C. Moore "Mtn Minstrel" (Western North Carolina, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Worth every penny--Great book for your piano literature collection. I have already been sitting at the piano sight-reading alot of the pieces I didn't already know.
My one warning--the print (as in all Dover editions) is a little more difficult to read than more expensive publishers' print. I bought the book for a student who is a beginner reading music and I decided to keep it for myself because I want her early reading experiences to be with very easy to read print--then after a couple of years, maybe struggle with this. I have found this to be true of all my Dover editions, they're great to get your hands on a large volume of music and are definitely worth the price no matter how hard they are to read---but I've had to get better printed copies of pieces that I'm really working on for performances

32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This book has so many songs, 83 to be exact!, May 28, 1999

By A Customer

I think this book is great. I especially like it because it has so many great songs. It has "The Maiden's Prayer" by Badarzewska-Baranowska, "Anitra's Dance" by Grieg, "Largo" by Handel, "Sarabande in D Minor" written by Handel, "Turkish Rondo" by the famous composer Mozart, "Moonlight Sonata" by Beethoven, "First Gymnopedie" by Satie, along with so many other great pieces. Pianists of all levels will enjoy having this book of classical piano pieces. This is a great book that every piano player should own.