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Beethoven March Op. 45, No. 2 for Piano 4 Hands: Instantly download and print sheet music

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Album of indifficult arrangements for piano four hands. Part 1.

cover of Album of indifficult arrangements for piano four hands. Part 1.author: Bach Johann Sebastian, Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus, Beethoven Ludwig van, Schubert Franz, Mendelssohn F, Glinka Mikhail, Grieg Edvard, Brahms J, Strauss Johann, Tchaikovski Boris, Borodin Aleksander, Musorgski Modest, Stravinsk Movchan S. (Ed.)
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Symphonies: Piano, Four Hands. Book I. (Nos. 1-5) [Vol. 10]

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Symphonies Nos. 1-5 for Piano Four Hands

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Beethoven's first 5 symphonies appear here in special unabridged four-hand arrangements. These elegant versions of the composer's masterpieces have long been favorites of duet performers. Reproduced from authoritative editions, they offer pianists of an intermediate level and beyond the chance to perform and study these famous works.

Symphonies Nos. 6-9 for Piano Four Hands

cover of Symphonies Nos. 6-9 for Piano Four Handsauthor: Ludwig van Beethoven
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For 200 years, Beethoven's symphonies have been at the core of the classical repertoire, and they remain among the most important works of art in any medium. These elegant four-hand versions of Beethoven's masterpieces have long been favorites of duet performers. This volume features his final 4 symphonies.

Beethoven: Variations pour Piano

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Beethoven Piano Sonatas 14, 8, 23 and 26

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Scarlatti: 3 Keyboard Sonatas; Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32; etc.

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The Instruments of Classical Music, Vol. 7: The Piano

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Beethoven: The Op.10 Piano Sonatas

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Beethoven: The Cello Sonatas

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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas

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Schnabel plays Beethoven: The 'Named Sonatas"

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When compact discs first came out, the first thing many longtime collectors wanted to know was, When does Schnabel's Beethoven become available? That the pianist's pioneering recordings of Beethoven's 32 Sonatas for Piano have been in print almost continuously since 1935 testifies to the esteem in which they continue to be held. Schnabel's performances are best heard in Pearl's five full-priced sets (about $180), rather than in EMI's less expensive box set (just under $80). Listeners who cannot afford such an investment owe it to themselves to investigate this two-disc sampler from Pearl, featuring Sonatas Nos. 8 ("Pathétique"), 14 ("Moonlight"), 15 ("Pastoral"), 21 ("Waldstein"), 23 ("Appassionata"), 26 ("Les Adieux"), and 29 ("Hammerklavier"). Schnabel was a founding father of musical modernism, which demanded that music be performed exactly as written, with the performer serving as no more than a transparent medium. Fortunately, Schnabel's ideology was not consistent with his practice. His softening of melodic contours, his free changing of tempos, his imaginative use of tone colors, his mailed-fist-in-a-velvet-glove power, and the unearthly beauty of his singing legato in pianissimo passages were those of a full-blown Romantic pianist. Certainly, no one ever served Beethoven's music better. Whether in the chain-reaction explosions of the "Appassionata," the sustained reveries of the opening movement of the "Moonlight," or the contrapuntal complexities of the finale of the "Hammerklavier," Schnabel never failed to demonstrate a genius for keeping the listener's ears in a state of perpetual expectation. --Stephen Wigler

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