The popular anthology Best of Piano Classics is now available as an exclusive hardcover edition, with ribbon bookmark and high-quality binding. A thoughtful gift for any pianist! Selected for students in their first years of piano lessons, this volume contains 50 of the most beautiful original compositions for piano from the days of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) to the days of Alexander Grechaninov, providing playing material from the baroque period to the early 20th century. Apart from numerous individual pieces, it also contains easy sonatas and sonatinas by Haydn, Clementi, Mozart, and Beethoven. Complete with fingerings, tempo suggestions and notes on the execution of ornaments, this collection with its modern and reader-friendly layout is ideal for lessons and for playing at home. Contents: BACH: Prelude, BWV 924 · Prelude, BWV 927 · Prelude, BWV 939 · Prelude, BWV 999 · Prelude, BWV 846 · Invention, BWV 772 · Invention, BWV 775 · Invention, BWV 779 · Invention, BWV 784 · HANDEL: Sarabande, HWV 437 · HAYDN: Sonata, Hob. XVI:8 · CLEMENTI: Sonatina, Op. 36, No. 1 · MOZART: Menuett, KV 1e · Menuett, KV 2 · Allegro, KV 3 · Rondeau, KV 15d · Alla Turca · Sonata, KV 545 · BEETHOVEN: Sonatina in G Major · Sonatina in F Major · Fur Elise, WoO 59 · Bagatelle in G Minor · Moonlight Sonata 1st mvt. · SCHUBERT: Waltz, Op. 18, No. 6 · Impromptu, D 935 · BURGMULLER: Arabesque, Op. 100, No. 2 · Ballade, Op. 100, No. 15 · Restlessness, Op. 100, No. 18 · MENDELSSOHN: Venetian Boat Song, Op. 19, No. 6 · Song Without Words, Op. 30, No. 3 · SCHUMANN: From foreign Lands and People, Op. 15, No. 1 · Reverie, Op. 15, No. 7 · Wild Horseman, Op. 68, No. 8 · Bogeyman's Coming, Op. 15, No. 11 · The Merry Peasent, Op. 68, No. 10 · CHOPIN: Prelude, Op. 28, No. 4 · Prelude, Op. 28, No. 6 · Raindrop Prelude, Op. 28, No. 15 · Mazurka, Op. 7, No. 2 · Mazurka Op. 68, No. 3 · Waltz in A minor · TCHAIKOVSKY: Mazurka, Op. 39, No. 10 · Sweet Dreaming, Op. 39, No. 21 · Chanson Triste · GRIEG: Waltz, Op. 12 No. 2 · Norwegian Melody, Op. 12, No. 6 · DEBUSSY: Le petit negre · The Girl with the Flaxen Hair · GRETCHANINOFF: An Old Romance, Op. 119, No. 2 · SATIE: Gymnopedie No. 1