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Moszkowski: Spanish Dances – Solo Piano and Piano Duet Arrangements

The Spanish Dances opus 12 is one of Moszkowski’s most famous works.
He composed this set of five Spanish Dances firstly for four-hand piano duet but later on arranged them in a solo piano version. We have just added the sheet music for both the solo piano and the four-hand version in our online music library.

Moszkowksi- Spanish Dance, Opus 12, No 1

Moszkowksi- Spanish Dance, opus 12, no 1

Moszkowski: Spanish Dances (solo piano)
Moszkowski: Spanish Dances (piano duet)


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New Sheet Music by Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and Others

Recent additions to the Piano Street Sheet Music Library available for download within the Gold Membership:

Bach-Busoni
Chaconne, BWV 1004

Johannes Brahms
Piano Quintet opus 34

Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne (opus posth) opus 72 no 1
Rondo Ă  la Mazur – op 5
Rondo – op 16
Berceuse – op 57
Barcarolle – op 60

César Franck

Piano Quintet

Enrique Granados
Goyescas: Quejas ó la maja y el ruiseñor no 4
Goyescas: El amor y la muerte no 5

Georg Friedrich Handel
Suite (G 175-178)

Robert Schumann
Piano Quintet opus 44

Sergey Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto 1 – op 1
Piano Concerto 3 – op 30

Alexander Scriabin
Nocturne (for the Left Hand) – op 9 no 2
Waltz – op 38


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Cliburn 2009 Repertoire List

Cliburn Piano VideoThe 2009 edition of the Van Cliburn Piano Competition has now come to an end. Those of you who have been following the competition’s live webcasts have been able to enjoy an extensive amount of interesting performances of great piano music. If you haven’t been watching, the great news is that all performances are now available for on demand streaming from the video archive at www.cliburn.tv.

A tribute from Piano Street

At Piano Street we were amazed about the ability to have instant on demand access to all the performances, although it was not that easy to get an overview of the many pieces performed, by who and when.
So, since we are not only passionate about classical piano music but also about organizing piano music in a user friendly way, we spent the weekend putting together a little tribute to the Cliburn Competition and its participating pianists in the form of an organized repertoire list.

The list is featuring various sorting abilities as well as links to the sheet music of the pieces available from the Piano Street sheet music library.

Watch great performances online and follow along in the sheet music:
Cliburn 2009 – Competition Repertoire



The 2009 Cliburn winners are:

Gold Medalists (tie for first):
Mr. Nobuyuki Tsujii, 20 (Japan)
Mr. Haochen Zhang, 19 (China)

Silver Medalist:
Ms. Yeol Eum Son, 23 (South Korea)

The Live Webcast
The entire Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition was streamed in real time to tens of thousands of viewers worldwide. As of June 6, the webcast player has received 231,265 visits from people in 132 countries. The most viewed performance was Evgeni Bozhanov’s Final Round recital.


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Beethoven Variations – New Urtext and Recordings

Variation form was a central feature of Beethoven’s piano writing in general, from his early years until the end of his life.

The many witty transformations of popular tunes give us an insight in how it might have sounded when the young Beethoven sat down to improvise at the keyboard, while works like the Eroica- and Diabelli Variations belong to the composer’s mature masterworks.

32 Variations in C-minor as well as the Six Variations in G-major, both based on Beethoven’s original themes, are now available in new Urtext sheet music and recordings by David Wärn.

32 Variations in C minor by Beethoven

32 Variation in C minor by Beethoven

Six Easy Variations in G major by Beethoven

Six Easy Variations in G major by Beethoven


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