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, […]

———————————————————————- 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. […]