Classics for the developing pianist: core repertoire for study and performance

Book 1 : Early intermediate. Menuet in G major, BWV Anh. 114 ; Musette in D major, BWV Anh. 126 / Johann Sebastian Bach

Le petit rien = The little trifle / François Couperin

Minuet in A minor / Henry Purcell

Menuet en rondeau / Jean-Philippe Rameau

Minuet in G major / Georg Philipp Telemann

Écossaise in G major, WoO 23 ; Sonatina in G major, Anh. 5, no. 1 / Ludwig van Beethoven

German dance : in G major / Franz Joseph Haydn

Burleske / Leopold Mozart

Allegro in B-flat major, K. 3 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Arabesque, op. 100, no 2 / Johann Friedrich Burgmüller

Écossaise in C major, D. 299, no. 8 ; Écossaise in G major, D. 529, no. 3 / Franz Schubert

Melody, op. 68, no. 1 ; The wild rider : op. 68, no. 8 / Robert Schumann

Play song : Sz. 42, no. 5 ; Song, Sz. 42, no. 3 : Come home, Lidi / Béla Bartók

The bear ; Chinese figurine / Vladimir Rebikov.

Book 2 : Intermediate. Solfeggieto / Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach

Five little preludes. Prelude in C major, BWV 939 / J.S. Bach

Gavotte / George Frideric Handel

Sonata in D minor, K. 32, L. 423 / Domenico Scarlatti

Sonatina in F major, Anh. 5, no. 2 / Beethoven

Sonatina in C major, op. 36, no. 1 / Muzio Clementi

Sonata in G major, Hob. XVI/8. [movement] III ; IV / Haydn

Sonatina in C major, op. 20, no. 1 / Friedrich Kuhlau

Sonata in C major, K. 545. [movement] III / W.A. Mozart

Ballade, op. 100, no. 15 / Burgmüller

Alfedans = Elfin dance : op, 12, no. 4 ; Waltz, op. 12, no. 2 / Edvard Grieg

Avalanche : op. 45, no. 2 / Stephen Heller

To a wild rose : op. 51, no. 1 / Edward MacDowell

Waltz in B minor, op. 18, no. 6, D. 145 / Schubert

First sorrow : op. 68, no. 16 / Schumann

Old French song : op. 39, no. 16 / Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Evening in the country : Sz. 39, no. 5 ; Teasing song : Sz. 42, no. 18 / Bartók

First gymnopédie / Erik Satie.

Book 3 : Late intermediate. French suite no. 5 in G major, BWV 816. Gavotte ; Invention no. 8 in F major, BWV 779 ; Invention no. 13 in A minor, BWV 784 ; The well-tempered clavier : vol. 1. Prelude in C major, BWV 846 / J.S. Bach

Sonata in C major, K. 159, L. 104 / D. Scarlatti

Bagatelle in G minor, op. 119, no. 1 ; Für Elise : WoO 59 / Beethoven

Sonatina in F major, op. 151, no. 3. [movement] I / Anton Diabelli

Sonata in G major, Hob. XVI/27. [movement] III / Haydn

Sonata in C major, K. 545. [movement] I / W.A. Mozart

Mazurka in G minor, op. 67, no. 2, posth. ; Waltz in A minor, op. posth. / Frédéric Chopin

Song without words. Consolation : op. 30, no. 3 / Felix Mendelssohn

About foreign lands and people : op. 15, no. 1 ; Knecht Ruprecht : op. 68, no. 12 / Schumann

Le petit nègre / Claude Debussy

Valse poético : no. 3 ; no. 4 / Enrique Granados

Bagatelle, op. 5, no. 1 ; no. 10 / Alexander Tcherepnin.

Book 4 : Early advanced. The well-tempered clavier : vol. 1. Prelude in B-flat major, BWV 866 / J.S. Bach

Sonata in A major, K. 208, L. 238 ; Sonata in D major, K. 430, L. 463 / D. Scarlatti

Bagatelle in E-flat major, op. 33, no. 1 ; Sonata in C-sharp minor, op. 27, no. 2 : Moonlight. [movement] I ; Sonata in G major, op. 49, no. 2. [movement] I / Beethoven

Sonata in D major, Hob. XVI/37, L. 50. [movement] I / Haydn

Fantasie in D minor, K. 397 ; Sonata in A major, K. 331. [movement] III : Rondo alla turca / W.A. Mozart

Nocturne in E-flat major, op. 9, no. 2 ; Prelude in D-flat major, op. 28, no. 15 : Raindrop ; Waltz in C-sharp minor, op. 64, no. 2 ; Waltz in D-flat major, op. 64, no. 1 : Minute / Chopin

Venetian gondola song : op. 30, no. 6 / Mendelssohn

Traümerei : op. 15, no. 7 / Schumann

Arabesque, no. 1 ; Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum ; Golliwog's cakewalk / Debussy

Spanish dance : op. 5, no. 1 / Granados

O polichinelo / Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Book 5 : Advanced. English suite no. 3 in G minor, BWV 808. Prelude ; Partita no. 2 in C minor, BWV 826. Sinfonia / J.S. Bach

Air and variations : The harmonious blacksmith / Handel

Sonata in E major, K. 380, L. 23 / D. Scarlatti

Sonata in C minor, op. 13 : Pathétique / Beethoven

Sonata in C major, Hob. XVI/50, L/ 60. [movement] I / Haydn

Sonata in C major, K. 330. [movement] I / W.A. Mozart

Intermezzo in A major, op. 118, no. 2 / Brahms ; Fantaisie-impromptu, op. 66 / Chopin

Consolation : no. 3 in D-flat major, S. 172 / Franz Liszt

Prelude in C-sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2 / Sergei Rachmaninoff

Impromptu in A-flat major, op. 142, no. 2, posth., D. 935 / Schubert

Aufschwung = Soaring : op. 12, no. 2 / Schumann

Sonatina, Sz. 55 / Bartók

Ritual fire dance / Manual de Falla

Clair de lune ; La fille aux cheveux de lin = The girl with the flaxen hair / Debussy

Maple leaf rag / Scott Joplin.