Editor: Ernst Herttrich Fingering: Hans-Martin Theopold Pages: 98 In 1835/1836 Liszt was staying in Switzerland with his mistress Marie Comtesse d’Agoult. He published his bold, avant-garde musical portrayal of his travels in the Swiss mountains in 1842 under the title Album d’un Voyageur. Around 1850 the one-time enfant terrible had become a mature composer. Liszt reworked his early compositions and published them in 1855 as Années de Pèlerinage, Erstes Jahr, Schweiz.

Subtitle: Easier Piano Pieces 32 • the composition style of the notable Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) is highly individualistic. • the six Humorous Bagatelles, written in 1894-7, are among his most charming works for piano and clearly reflect Nielsen's simple melodic and rhythmic style, derived from his early experience of village music-making

Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas are the “New Testament” of music, according to Hans von Bülow. Our selection here does not take things quite so solemnly, because we have also taken the opportunity to show the more “worldly” side of the composer, with dances, bagatelles, the unusual character piece “Lustig und traurig” (“Happy and sad”), and of course the indestructible “Für Elise”. As usual in our series “At the piano”, all the pieces are arranged progressively from easy to medium level of difficul

Composer: Carl Czerny Format: Book Practical Method For Beginners On The Pianoforte