This edition will assist piano students in achieving a better, more stylistically correct interpretation of some of Mozart's finest keyboard music written at the intermediate to early advanced levels. Historical background, including Mozart's own letters, are included to help clarify his style of performance. All dynamic, pedal and metronome marks are editorial, except where indicated. Titles: * Andante in B Flat Major, K. 5b (9b) * Siciliano in D Minor, K. 15u * Andante in G Minor, K. 15r * Fantasy in D Minor, K. 397 (385g) * Rondo in D Major, K. 485 * Twelve Variations on "Ah, Vous Dirai-Je, Maman," K. 300e (265)

Mozart's emergence as a mature artist coincides with the rise to prominence of the piano, an instrument that came alive under his fingers and served as medium for many of his finest compositions. In Mozart's Piano Music, William Kinderman reconsiders common assumptions about Mozart's life and art while offering comprehensive and incisive commentary on the solo music and concertos. After placing Mozart's pianistic legacy in its larger biographical and cultural context, Kinderman addresses the lively gestural and structural aspects of Mozart's musical language and explores the nature of his creative process. Incorporating the most recent research throughout this encompassing study, Kinderman expertly surveys each of the major genres of the keyboard music, including the four-hand and two-piano works. Beyond examining issues such as Mozart's earliest childhood compositions, his musical rhetoric and expression, the social context of his Viennese concertos, and affinities between his piano works and operas, Kinderman's main emphasis falls on detailed discussion of selected individual compositions.

The pieces in this book are arranged roughly in chronological order. They include the best of Mozart's childhood compositions through late works such as the famous "Sonata in C Major," K. 545. Unique features of this volume include an excellent discussion of pianos in Mozart's day, as well as directives on how to improvise ornaments in Classic keyboard music.

(Schirmer Performance Editions). This collection of remarkable jewels by Mozart will be invaluable to teachers and students. The book features some of Mozart's earliest works, a few of which were composed when the young Wolfgang was only six years old. Already present are signs of remarkable taste and talent: beautiful melody, impeccable formal construction, and unsurpassed elegance. These pieces are wonderful tools for teaching articulation, independence of the hands, and the classical style. Recordings of this literature are difficult to locate so this edition includes a beautifully refined recording by the editor. Contents: Air in A-flat major (KV Anh. 109b Nr. 8 15ff ) * Allegro in B-flat major (KV 3) * Allegro in F major (KV 1c) * Andante in C major (KV 1a) * Andante in E-flat major (KV 15mm) * Contradance in G major (KV 15e) * Larghetto in F major * Minuet in B-flat major (KV 15pp) * Minuet in C major (from KV 6) * Minuet in D major (KV 7) * Minuet in D major (KV 94 73h ) * Minuet in E-flat major (KV 15qq) * Minuet in F major (KV 2) * Minuet in G major (KV 1e/1f) * Minuet in G major (KV 15c) * Minuet in G major (KV 15y)

Taken from an early Belwin Mills edition, this collection features works for 1 piano, 4 hands as they were originally composed by W. A. Mozart. Titles: * Sonata in D Major, K.381 * Sonata in B-flat Major, K.358 * Sonata in F Major, K.497 * Sonata in C Major, K.521 * Fantasia I in F Minor, K.594 * Fantasia II in F Minor, K.608 * Variations in G Major, K.501 * Fugue in G Minor, K.401

Mozart's piano sonatas are among the most familiar of his works and stand alongside those of Haydn and Beethoven as staples of the pianist's repertoire. In this study, John Irving looks at a wide selection of contextual situations for Mozart's sonatas, focusing on the variety of ways in which they assume identities and achieve meanings. In particular, the book seeks to establish the provisionality of the sonatas' notated texts, suggesting that the texts are not so much identifiers as possibilities and that their identity resides in the usage. Close attention is paid to reception matters, analytical approaches, organology, the role of autograph manuscripts, early editions and editors, and aspects of historical performance practice - all of which go beyond the texts in opening windows onto Mozart's sonatas. Treating the sonatas collectively as a repertoire, rather than as individual works, the book surveys broad thematic issues such as the role of historical writing about music in defining a generic space for Mozart's sonatas, their construction within pedagogical traditions, the significance of sound as opposed to sight in these works (and in particular their sound on fortepianos of the later eighteenth-century) , and the creative role of the performer in their representation beyond the frame of the text. Drawing together and synthesizing this wealth of material, Irving provides an invaluable reference source for those already familiar with this repertoire.

(Faber Piano Adventures ). Adult Piano Adventures Classics Book 1 celebrates great masterworks of Western music, including symphony themes, opera gems, and classical favorites. The melodies of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and other master composers are arranged at just the right level for adult beginners and for those who are returning to the keyboard. Section 1 features piano arrangements with minimal hand position changes, and many selections include an optional duet part. Section 2 introduces the I, IV, and V7 chords in the key of C major, harmonizing themes such as Sibelius's Finlandia, Schubert's The Trout, and Mendelssohn's Spring Song. Section 3 presents the primary chords in the key of G major, with arrangements of Vivaldi's Autumn (from The Four Seasons), Mozart's theme from The Magic Flute, Lizst's Liebestraum, and more.