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Other Recommendations for Piano Learning
- LIST OF INTERMEDIATE PIANO REPERTOIRE ALL DOWNLOADABLE FOR FREE: List of Intermediate Piano Repertoire on IMSLP
- EXCELLENT “MERCUZIO” PIANO ARRANGEMENTS: Mercuzio’s YouTube Channel
- TECHNIQUE, THEORY & EXERCISE BOOKS: Piano Book for Adult Beginners: Teach Yourself How to Play Famous Piano Songs, Read Music, Theory & Technique |Complete Book of Scales, Chords, Arpeggios & Cadences (Alfred) | The Chord Wheel: The Ultimate Tool for All Musicians | Alfred’s Essentials of Music Theory: A Complete Self-Study Course for All Musicians | Hanon: The Virtuoso Pianist in Sixty Exercises (Schirmer) | The Art of Piano Fingering: Traditional, Advanced, and Innovative | The Pianist’s Guide to Pedaling |The Art of Pedaling: A Manual for the Use of the Piano Pedals | The Art of Piano Pedaling: Two Classic Guides | The Art of Piano Playing | Piano Technique | Piano Technique Demystified: Insights Into Problem Solving | The Piano Handbook: A Complete Guide for Mastering Piano | Fundamentals of Piano Technique: The Russian Method | Piano Aerobics: A Multi-Style 40-Week Workout Program Building Real-World Technique | Jazz Piano Technique: Exercises, Etudes & Ideas for Building Chops
- INTERPRETIVE, HISTORICAL & BIOGRAPHICAL BOOKS: Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Paperback) | Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Hardcover) | The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents | Mozart: A Life | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Biography | Mozart: Requiem of Genius | Mozart: The Man Revealed | Mozart: A Cultural Biography | Mozart: the man and artist, as revealed in his own words | Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph | Beethoven | Beethoven: The Man Revealed | Beethoven: The Music and the Life | Beethoven’s Letters | Beethoven Sonatas and the Creative Experience | Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion | The Sonatas of Beethoven As He Played and Taught Them| Chopin: Prince of the Romantics | Chopin: The Man and His Music | The Life of Chopin | Chopin’s Letters | Chopin: pianist and teacher as seen by his pupils |
- METHOD BOOKS & COMPILATIONS FOR CHILDREN: Teaching Little Fingers to Play: A Book for the Earliest Beginner (John Thompson) | John Thompson’s Modern Course for the Piano: First Grade | John Thompson’s Modern Course for the Piano: Second Grade | John Thompson’s Modern Course for the Piano: Third Grade | John Thompson’s Modern Course for the Piano: Fourth Grade | John Thompson’s Modern Course for the Piano: Fifth Grade | Music for Little Mozarts: Lesson Book 1 (Alfred)
- METHOD BOOKS & COMPILATIONS FOR ADULTS: John Thompson’s Adult Piano Course: Book 1 (Preparatory) | John Thompson’s Adult Piano Course: Book 2 | Adult All-In-One Course: Lesson-Theory-Technic (Alfred) | Adult All-In-One Course, Level 2: Lesson-Theory-Solo (Alfred) | Adult All-In-One Course, Level 3: Lesson-Theory-Solo (Alfred)
- RAGTIME, JAZZ & POPULAR FOR ALL AGES: Scott Joplin: King of Ragtime for Easy Piano (Ashley Publications) | Simply Joplin: The Music of Scott Joplin, 12 of His Ragtime Classics, Easy Piano (Alfred) | Scott Joplin’s Greatest Hits (Easy Piano Composer Collection) (Hal Leonard) | At the Piano With Scott Joplin (ed. Hinson, Alfred) | Scott Joplin: Complete Piano Works (NY Public Library, Belwin-Mills) | The Big Book of Ragtime Piano (Hal Leonard)
- JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750): First Lessons in Bach: Books I and II, Complete (Schirmer) | Two-Part Inventions (Henle) |Inventions & Sinfonias (Henle) | Little Preludes & Fugues (Henle) | Fantasies, Prelude & Fugues (Henle) | Italian Concerto, Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue and Other Works for Keyboard (Dover) | Italian Concerto (Henle) | Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (Henle) | French and English Suites, Complete (Schirmer) | 6 English Suites (Henle) | 6 French Suites (Henle) | 6 Partitas (Henle) |The Well-Tempered Clavier, Part 1 (Bärenreiter) | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Part 1 (Henle) | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Part 2 (Henle) | Goldberg Variations (Henle) | Goldberg Variations (Bärenreiter) | Italian Concerto, French Overture, Four Duets, Goldberg Variations (Henle)
- FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809): Piano Sonatas, Book 1 (Schirmer) | Piano Sonatas, Book 2 (Schirmer) | The Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 (Alfred) | The Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 (Alfred) | Concerto in D for Piano and Orchestra (Dowani)
- WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791): A First Book of Mozart: for the Beginning Pianist With Downloadable MP3s (Dover) |Mozart 21 of His Most Popular Pieces for the Piano (Alfred) | Sonatas and Fantasies for the Piano (Theodore Presser) | Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 Henle) | Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 (Henle) | Selected Intermediate to early Advanced Piano Sonata Movements (Alfred) |Variations for Piano (Henle) | Variations for Piano (Bärenreiter) | Variations for Piano (Wiener Urtext) | 12 Variations on “Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman,” (Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star) K. 265 (Alfred)
- LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827): Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 (Henle) | Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 (Henle) | Complete Variations for Solo Piano (Dover) | Variations for Piano, Volume I (Henle) | Variations for Piano, Volume II (Henle) | Complete Piano Concertos in Full Score (Dover) | Complete Piano Concertos (Schirmer)
- FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847): CompleteSongs Without Words (Schirmer)
- FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN (1809-1849): The Complete Preludes & Etudes (Dover) |Nocturnes and Polonaises (Dover) | Complete Ballades, Impromptus & Sonatas (Dover) | Mazurkas (Dover) | Waltzes and Scherzos (Dover) | The Piano Concertos in Full Score (Dover) | Complete Preludes, Nocturnes and Waltzes (Schirmer) | Complete Preludes (Schirmer) | Preludes (Paderewski) | Etudes for the Piano (Schirmer) | Etudes, Op. 10 and Op. 25 (Henle) | Etudes (Paderewski) | Nocturnes for the Piano (Schirmer) | Nocturnes (Henle) | Nocturnes (Paderewski) | Waltzes for the Piano (Schirmer) | Waltzes (Paderewski) | Mazurkas for the Piano (Schirmer) |Mazurkas (Paderewski) | Ballades for the Piano (Schirmer) | Ballades (Henle) | Ballades (Paderewski) | Scherzi and Fantasy (Schirmer) | Scherzos (Paderewski) | Scherzi (Henle) | Impromptus (Schirmer) | Impromptus (Henle) | Impromptus (Paderewski)
- ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856): Piano Music of Robert Schumann, Series I (Dover) | Piano Music of Robert Schumann, Series II (Dover) | Piano Music of Robert Schumann, Series III (Dover) | Abegg Variations, Op. 1 (Henle)| Papillons, Op. 2 (Henle) |Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 (Henle) | Carnaval, Op. 9 (Henle) | Fantasy Pieces, Op. 12 (Henle) | Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13 (Henle) |Piano Sonata in F Minor, Op. 14 (Henle) | Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15 (Henle) | Kreisleriana, Op. 16 (Henle) | Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17 (Henle) | Arabesque, Op. 18 (Henle) | Novelettes, Op. 21 (Henle) | Piano Sonata in G Minor, Op. 22 (Henle) | Night Pieces, Op. 23 (Henle) | Carnival of Vienna, Op. 26 (Henle) | Three Romances, Op. 28 (Henle) | Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 (Henle) |Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 (Henle) | Album for the Young, Op. 68 (Henle) | Fantasy Pieces for Piano and Clarinet, Op. 73 (Henle) | Forest Scenes, Op. 82 (Henle) | Colored Leaves, Op. 99 (Henle) | Sonata for Piano and Violin in A Minor, Op. 105 (Henle) | Three Fantasy Pieces, Op. 111 (Henle) | Fairy Tale Pictures for Piano and Viola, Op. 113 (Henle) | Sonata No. 2 in D Minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 121 (Henle)
- FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886): Sonata in B Minor (Henle) | Sonata in B Minor (Bärenreiter) | Sonata in B Minor (Schirmer) | Sonata in B Minor (Alfred) | Sonata in B Minor and Other Works for Piano (Dover) | Liszt Masterpieces for Solo Piano: 13 Works (Dover)| Consolations and Liebesträume (Schirmer) | Annes de Pélerinage (Years of Pilgrimage), Complete (Dover) | Complete Hungarian Rhapsodies for Solo Piano (Dover) | Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-5 Transcribed for Solo Piano (Dover) | Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 6-9 Transcribed for Solo Piano (Dover) | The Piano Concerti in Full Score (Dover) | Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major (Schirmer)| Concerto No. 2 in A Major (Schirmer)
- CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862-1918): Favorite Piano Works (Schirmer) | The Ultimate Piano Collection (Schirmer) | Claude Debussy: Piano Music (1888-1905) (Dover) | Complete Preludes, Books 1 and 2 (Dover) | Twelve Etudes for Piano (Schirmer)