Easy, yet impressive starter compositions.

[pedalhead]

Hi,
This is my first post on a forum, any forum, so I apologize in advance for any etiquette errors.
I am a real beginner at the piano and I don't know if I will have any talent for the piano.
That being said, I can read music having played the trumpet in High School, plus singing in the church choir for years.

I have a plan, a goal and lots of time and energy to accomplish this goal, I am working in China for the next 6 months with 3-4 hours every evening free to practise!
My goal is to surprise my fiancee at our wedding reception (in October) with a rendition of John Legend's "All of Me", with vocals if possible.

I enjoyed the forum post by Bernhard "Easiest, yet great, piano piece ever written"  His teaching philosophy appealed to me.  Get the student interested and producing great music from the start.  A number of people responded to his post and gave additional suggestions for beginner music.  But for the life of me I cannot find most of the sheet music suggested online! I would really appreciate the help finding the sheet music or a site where I could purchase or download the following:

Joe Gargiulo – Keyspace (Cory’s Space) 
Bergerac – Marshmallow Sundae
Vladimir Rebikov – The Bear
Yvonne Adair – The wild Swans
Yvonne Adair – Thumbelina
B. Bartok - So small is the street of Istavand
Maykapar  - Autumn
Maykapar  - Tale
Chopin Prelude A major
Debussy "Girl with flaxen hair" 
MacDowell "To a wild rose"
Prokofiev's Music for Children

Thanks in advance.

Chris
(aka pedalhead)
Kawai ES100 (borrowed from a Chinese Colleague)

[coda_colossale]

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3, transcription for organ and piano (both played by the same guy) for left hand by Cziffra&Art Tatum, in A flat miner (Transposed from D minor).

Sorry, I had to  .

Arvo Pärt: Für Alina is really easy, but inappropriate for your plan.

Chopin: Prelude A major Op. 28 No. 7
Chopin: Prelude Db major Op. 28 No. 15 
Beethoven: Sonata Quasi una Fantasi Movement I
Bach: Prelude in B minor-Siloti Transcription
Bach: Prelude in C major from WTC I.
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 2nd movement (An arrangement for two instruments would be amazing)

[worov]

Hi and welcome !

Some of these are available on the Internet.

The Chopin A major Prelude is in this PDF file (it's no. 7) :
https://conquest.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/e/e2/IMSLP111373-PMLP02344-FChopin_Preludes__Op.28_Mikuli.pdf

The Debussy is here (it's no. :
https://javanese.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/2/24/IMSLP246411-PMLP02394-Debussy__Claude-Klavierwerke_Peters_Klemm_Band_II_01_Preludes_1er_Livre_scan.pdf

The McDowell is here :
https://petrucci.mus.auth.gr/imglnks/usimg/a/a4/IMSLP220170-SIBLEY1802.19559.c64b-39087012748366score.pdf

I have the Prokofiev. Here it is :
https://dl.free.fr/moZfhqTO5

I can't find a precise reference for the Bartok. I googled the title you gave, but I didn't come up with anything but this very thread and the Bernhard thread you mentionned. But it should be on the Internet (most of Bartok works are). Do you have any more information about it ?

[pedalhead]

Thanks, I will download and give them a try!
I am trying to line up a tutor, apparently there are a lot of them here in Shanghai and very affordable!
Chris