New Urtext sheet music of the Goldberg Variations by Bach has been published by Piano Street today: The complete score is now available for download for Gold members from the Piano Street Sheet Music Library. ***FREE SHEET MUSIC SAMPLE*** Have a look at the FREE sheet music sample of the Aria and Variation 1 while listening to Murray Perahia playing […]

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. Moszkowski: Spanish Dances (solo piano) Moszkowski: Spanish Dances […]

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 à la Mazur – op 5 Rondo – op 16 Berceuse – op 57 Barcarolle – op 60 César Franck Piano Quintet Enrique Granados […]

The 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 […]

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 […]

22 pieces by Sergey Prokofiev have been added to Piano Street’s library of downloadable sheet music: Four Etudes, opus 2 Four Pieces, opus 3 Four Pieces, opus 4 Ten Pieces, opus 12 Listen to Sviatoslav Richter playing Diabolic Suggestions (opus 4 no 4):

“The other day I heard Chopin improvise at George Sand’s house. It is marvelous to hear Chopin compose in this way: his inspiration is so immediate and complete that he plays without hesitation as if it could not be otherwise. But when it comes to writing it down and recapturing the original thought in all its details, he spends days […]

“In every fugitive vision I see worlds, full of the changing play of rainbow hues…” Konstantin Balmont Visions Fugitives (fleeting visions) by Sergey Prokofiev is a set of pieces based on a poem written by Russian poet Konstantin Balmont. They were composed between 1915 and 1917 and premiered by Prokofiev on April 15, 1918 in Petrograd, Soviet Union. The pieces, […]

The Hungarian-French composer Stephen Heller (1814-1888) produced a large amount of piano music of which his numerous studies are still very popular because of their fine pedagogical qualities as well as their strong and appealing characteristics. His other piano pieces of all kinds, variations, character pieces, operatic transcriptions, fantasies, sonatas, dance movements, nocturnes, waltzes, caprices and scherzos might by today’s […]

Playing piano pieces for four hands is often very motivating for beginning piano students. Diabelli’s 28 Melodious Exercises opus 149 are simple but appealing pieces and the primo part stays in the five finger position all the time which makes them great for practicing sight reading. Diabelli’s 28 Melodious Exercise, opus 149 are now available for download from the Piano […]

“The more I play, the more I am thoroughly convinced that the pedal is the soul of the piano. There are cases where the pedal is everything” Anton Rubinstein Two interesting books on the use of the piano pedals have been added to Piano Street’s new Special Content page. The books are downloadable as e-books in pdf-format. Guide to the […]

This legendary manual in both English and German documents principles and techniques of the legendary piano teacher Theodor Leschetizky, who taught Paderewski, Schnabel and many other great pianists. The book devided into two parts begins with explanations of hand and finger positions and proceeds to discussions of the touch; diatonic and chromatic scales; trills, chords and arpeggios, double notes, thirds, […]