Schott Piano Classics

Piano duet playing has always been very popular in and outside music lessons. Playing piano together is much more fun; thanks to the rich harmony and the extended piano setting, even beginners and int...

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade performer's certificate)

In 1874 Mussorgsky wrote his famous piano cycle inspired by an exhibition of pictures by his friend Viktor Hartmann. The resources of musical realism are used to describe the ten pictures in great det...

These sonatas for piano duet will, it is hoped, be a welcome addition to the domestic and educational music repertoire. Even amateurs will have little trouble with them.The sonatas were arranged in th...

These short eight-bar exercises are generally regarded as some of the best, most versatile and comprehensive of Czerny's studies. Apart from helping to achieve speed, suppleness and versatility of ton...

This collection of easy arrangements for piano of well-known choral, organ and orchestral works by J. S. Bach has enjoyed great popularity since its first appearance. Another easy arrangement has been...

In the autograph of his 'Inventions', J.S. Bach set out the aim of these pieces, formulating a dual purpose: the keyboard player should, on the one hand, practise polyphonic playing with two obligator...

This collection provides an introduction to keyboard music of the earliest times, opening up a field which until recently has been relatively closed to the amateur musician. Beginning with the oldest...

In 1759 Leopold Mozart compiled a notebook as a present for his daughter Maria Anna (usually called 'Nannerl'), it was intended as a series of instructive exercises and practice pieces. The notebook t...

Grieg's Lyric Pieces are among the most popular piano pieces ever written. Works such as Papillon, Fairy-Dance and To Spring have become 'cult pieces' in the repertoire of domestic music-making. It is...

On his sister Fanny's birthday on 14 November 1828 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy surprised her with a piano piece in E flat major entitled 'Lied'. A little later, Fanny called the work 'Lied ohne Worte'...

Georg Benda was born on 30. Juni 1722 in Bohemia, and 1997 was the 275. anniversary of his birth. He is the most celebrated member of the musical Benda family and besides works for the stage he wrote...

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade Advanced recital)

At about the same time as 1783-85, a version for piano duet was made which rearranged the movements of the five Divertimenti as '6 Viennese Sonatinas'.Our new edition is based on the piano version of...

The mazurka was Chopin's companion throughout his entire artistic life: He wrote the Mazurka in A minor Op. 68 at the age of seventeen, and even his very last composition was dedicated to this Polish...

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade Advanced recital)

Leichte und musikalisch ansprechende Haydn-Sonaten für den Unterricht in Unter- und Mittelstufe.

Der böhmische Komponist Vanhal gilt als der erste freischaffende Künstler, der sich ausschliesslich durch den Erlös seiner Werke und durch Unterricht ernährte. Er schrieb über 100 Sinfonien und zahlre...

This collection provides an introduction to keyboard music of the earliest times, opening up a field which until recently has been relatively closed to the amateur musician. Beginning with the oldest...

Unsere Neuausgabe der Sonaten op. 1 folgt der 1771 von Welcker in London verlegten Erstausgabe, die im British Museum aufbewahrt wird.

This new edition of the Studies for Piano Duet Op. 751 is particularly useful as it facilitates tuition with precise and speedily achievable goals in mind,incorporating all aspects of instrumental and...

These works are particularly suited for the instrument; stunningly idiomatic, they are ideal and effective encore pieces.

In 1888 Grieg arranged four pieces from his incidental music for Ibsen's verse drama Peer Gynt to form an orchestral suite (Op. 46). This was followed in 1891 by a second orchestral suite (Op. 55) aga...

This collection of easy pieces by Claude Debussy (1862-1918) contains the works 'The little negro', 'La Fille aux cheveux de lin', 'La Cathédrale engloutie' and the collection 'Children's Corner'. A d...