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Piano Teaching Notes

Classical Music Listening

# Composer(s) YouTube Playlist
1 Mozart, Mussorgsky YouTube Playlist
2 Beethoven, Tchaikovsky YouTube Playlist
3 Bach, Debussy YouTube Playlist
4 Chopin, John Cage YouTube Playlist
5 Jazz/Dance, Kapustin, Gershwin YouTube Playlist
8 Misc 1 YouTube Playlist
9 Dvorak YouTube Playlist
10 Strings YouTube Playlist

Mozart

(1756-1791) Austrian, Classical period

  • Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K331 (all 3 movements)
  • Piano Concerto No. 21 (2nd movement: Andante), K467
  • Symphony No. 40 (1st movement: Molto Allegro), K550

Mussorgsky

(1839-1881), Russian, Romantic period

  • Pictures at an Exhibition - (finale) Great Gate of Kiev
  • Night on Bald Mountain

Beethoven

(1770-1827) German, Classical period

  • Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight" Op. 27 No. 2 (all 3 movements)
  • Piano Sonata No. 8 "Pathetique" Op. 13 (2nd movement: Adagio Cantabile)
  • Symphony No. 5 (1st movement: Allegro Con Brio)

Tchaikovsky

(1840-1893), Russian, romantic period

Famous for writing music for ballet, e.g. Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker

Nutcracker (the ballet) is performed every year during Christmas in HK

  • Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a
  • Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 23

Bach

(1685-1750) German, Baroque period

  • Prelude and Fugue in B-flat Major, No. 21, BWV 866
  • Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971 (III. Presto)
  • Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565
  • Cello Suite No. 1 - Prelude, BWV 1007
  • Air on the G String, (arranged from Orchestral Suite No. 3, 2nd movement, BWV 1068)

Debussy

(1862-1918) French, Romantic period (Impressionism)

  • Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, L. 86
  • Clair de lune, (3rd movement from Suite bergamasque, L. 75)
  • Children's Corner, L. 113 - I: Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum
  • The Girl with the Flaxen Hair, L. 33
  • Arabesques No. 1, from Deux Arabesques L. 66

Chopin

(1810-1849) Polish, Romantic period

  • Nocturne in E Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2
  • Prelude Op. 28 No. 4 in E Minor, Largo
  • Fantasie Impromptu, Op. 66
  • Polonise Op. 53 ("Heroic")
  • Etude Op. 25 No. 11 "Winter Wind"
  • Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
  • Etude Op. 10 No. 3
  • Prelude Op. 28 No. 15 "Raindrop"
  • Minute Waltz, Op. 64 No. 1
  • Scherzo No. 2 in B Flat Minor, Op. 31

Cage

(1912-1992) American, 20th Century/Modern/Contemporary

  • Sonata V for Prepared Piano
  • 4'33"

Jazz/Dance

Ragtime

Scott Joplin (1868-1917): African-American composer and pianist. Dubbed the "King of Ragtime"

  • Joplin: The Entertainer
  • Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag

Tango

Astor Piazolla (1921-1992): Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger

  • Piazolla: Libertango

Gerardo Matos Rodríguez (1897-1948): Uruguayan

  • Rodríguez: La Cumparsita

Blues

  • Herbie Hancock: Blue Otani
  • Leroy Carr: How Long Blues
  • (Boogie Woogie) The Andrews Sisters: Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

Big Band

  • Cab Calloway & Nicholas Brothers: Jumpin' Jive
  • Paul Desmond & Dave Brubeck: Take 5 (Big Band arrangement)

Kapustin

Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin (1937-2020), Soviet

  • Kapustin: No. 1 (Prelude) from Eight Concert Etudes Op. 40

Gershwin

George Gershwin (1898-1937), American

  • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

Misc 1

Dvorak

(1841-1904) Czech, Romantic (Folk)

Strings