———————————————————————- EDIT 13 January 2008: The audio files are no longer available for free but will soon be added to the Gold membership resources. ———————————————————————- We would like to wish you Happy Holidays with some of our new recordings for you to enjoy! The seven new recordings below are freely available until 12 January 2009. All tracks recorded on Steinway […]

Russian tone-poet Alexander Scriabin composed his Mazurkas over a period of fifteen years (from 1888 to 1903). A Mazurka was originally a stylized Polish folk dance in triple meter with a lively tempo and a heavy accent on the second or third beat. It has either a triplet, a trill, a dotted or even eighth note pair before two quarter […]

24 Fiver-Finger Exercises, opus 777 by Carl Czerny has been added to our sheet music library. This opus contains 24 easy exercises practicing various technical skills such as legato and staccato playing, thirds etc.

A pilot video for our planned series of pedagogical tools is now available on YouTube:

A selection of 29 studies from “Gradus ad Parnassum” by Muzio Clementi is now avaliable in our sheet music library in an edition by Carl Tausig. Clementi: Gradus ad Parnassum In this edition Tausig has selected the most practical and profitable among the 100 studies. Gradus ad Parnassum, composed 1817, was Clementi’s last published work. The Latin phrase Gradus ad […]

The Young Pianist, Opus 823 by Carl Czerny is now added to our sheet music library in an edition by Adolf Ruthardt. This opus is one of Czerny’s easiest collections of studies.

Opus 142 (D 935) by Franz Schubert are now available in PS Urtext edition. This collection of four Impromptus starts and concludes with pieces in the same key (F-minor) which is one of the reasons for the speculations by Robert Schumann that parts of this opus was originally intended as a sonata (although refuted by some contemporary musicologists) but was […]

This opus of 100 studies is now available in our sheet music library. First Tutor is a preparatory school for beginners in ten parts. 1. First exercises for the knowledge of the notes 2. Exercises for the five fingers with quiet hand 3. The first exercises for the thumb 4. Exercises exceeding an octave 5. Exercises with the bass-cleff 6. […]

Opus 299 by Czerny “School of Velocity” is now available in an edition by Adolf Ruthardt. School of Velocity

We have now made Opus 849 by Carl Czerny (30 New Studies in Technique; Preparation for the School of Velocity) available in an edition by Adolf Ruthardt. 30 New Studies in Technique

Sheet music of 23 pieces by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky are now available in an edition edited by Pavel Lamm. A Child’s Scherzo – First Version A Child’s Scherzo – Second Version A Tear Childhood Memory A Child’s Scherzo – Second Version First Punishment Hopak of the Young Ukrainians, from The Fair at Sorochintsi – First Version Hopak of the Young […]

The impromptus opus 90 and Moments Musicaux opus 94 by Franz Schubert are now available in PS Urtext editions. Schubert: Impromptu, Opus 90 No 1 A march-like melody written in C minor although the tonal ambiguity at the start of the piece highlights the romantic composer’s need for abstract imagery through music. This is the longest impromptu in this set. […]