Repertoires for Beginners, Intermediate & Advanced

Piano Ensemble's Repertoires 

for Beginners, Intermediate & Advanced

BEGINNER

1. Diabelli 28 Melodic Etudes, Op. 149

• 28 melodic short pieces
• Bass (secondo) part slightly more difficult than the treble (primo) part
• An intermediate student should be able to cope easily with the secondo part
• Both hands in the primo part play the same notes (one octave apart) 
• Five finger positions
• “Scherzo” (no. 6) sounds terrific, and very impressive
• Excellent material for sight-reading in the initial stages

 

Diabelli Op. 149, No. 10 (1 piano, 4 hands)

Diabelli Op. 149, No. 28 (8 pianos, 32 hands)

2. Diabelli Op. 163 - 6 Sonatinas in 3 Movements on Five Notes

3. Diabelli Sonatinas op. 24, 54, 58, and 60

4. Diabelli Sonatas op. 32, 33, 37, 38 and 73 (Intermediate)

INTERMEDIATE

1. Bizet - Jeux d’Enfants, Op. 22 

• 12 beautiful pieces
• The parts are not that difficult
• the main difficulty is putting it all together
• Great learning pieces! (It will teach you the art of playing together) 
• Recommended: “Petit Marie, Petit femme” and “ La topie”
• Also very impressive on performance (it looks and sounds much more difficult than it actually is).

2. Brahms – Waltzes Op. 39 

• Beautiful waltzes
• originally written for piano four hands, but later Brahms made one piano versions of them
• Also his Hungarian Dances (again originally written for piano duet)

3. Andre Caplet – “Un tas de petite choses”

• This is a most interesting collection of pieces
• The primo part is very easy, and all in the white keys
• The second part however, explores all keys
• Very clever writing and modern sound

 

4. Debussy – Petit Suite

5. Fauré – Dolly suite

• Six pieces
• the primo easier than the secondo.

"Spanish Dance" 

ADVANCED

1. Alkan – Trois Marches, Op. 40

3. Richard Rodney Bennett – Capriccio

4. Mendelssohn – Allegro Brilliant, op. 92

5. Satie – Trois Morceaux en forme de Poire

Besides all that Mozart, Schumann, Beethoven and Schubert all wrote quite a lot of our hand works (especially Schubert).