piano composer: Rachmaninoff, Sergei Wassiljewitsch drawings: Jawlensky, Alexej von Vol. 1 Product Line: Russian Piano Classics (Authentic Edition) Pages: 104

Piano - Easy Composed by Pauline Hall. Piano Time. 24 pages

By Charles Griffes Edited by Maurice Hinson Series: Alfred Masterwork Edition Category: Piano Solo Instrument: Piano Level: Advanced

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