Thanks Danae :) ================================== REPERTOIRE - BEGINNER PIANO Russian School of Piano (3 volumes) J. S. BACH - Kleine Präludien und Fughtten BELLA BARTOK - Mikrokosmos Bände I-II CLEMENTI - Sonatinas SCHUMANN - Album for the young JOHN FIELD - Nocturnes - (First composer to write nocturnes) CHOPIN - Waltz in Bm CHOPIN - Waltz in Fm CHOPIN - Mazurkas THOMAS LARCHER - POEMS - 12 pièces pour pianistes et autres enfants MOZART - Sonata Facile - Piano Sonata in C major KV 545 PROKOFIEV - Music for Children Op. 65
Great recomendations!!! Thanks a lot. I'm just a beginner and I also recommend: Album for Anna Magdalena Bach, and Burgmuller Op.100 25 easy studies. Very enjoyable both of them.
Thank you for this wonderful video. I couldn't agree more. I use the Russian Piano Schools volume 1 and 2 for my beginner students as well and have made really good experiences with them. Whoever is starting with piano: Danae knows what she is talking about. Listen to her. ;) I always enjoy watching your videos! Hope you are doing well. Greetings from Regensburg!
After listening to your video, I searched out your recommendations for beginners repertoire, and enjoyed playing them immensely. I started with different repertoire in England, so it was great to play pieces that started your journey off. Ps. I agree with you that the Bartok pieces are brilliant! Richard.
I'd add Stephen Hellers etudes (called etudes, but are actual pieces of music, not Czerny etude style finger exercises). Tchaikovsky's Album for Children is awesome (liked it more than the Schumann one when I was starting out). Also Granados has written an album for children - some really pretty pieces in there. Field's 5th nocturne was my introduction into the world of Nocturnes - really nice one. I absolutely hated Bartoks Microcosm as a beginner though. Whenever my teacher suggested it, I've thrown him an evil look. 🤪
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Haha that’s funny! ;) How great that you also played the Field Nocturne No. 5 - it was my first Nocturne as well. Yes, and I completely agree with the Stephen Heller and the Tchaikovsky Album for Children!
When I was a child I played a lot of Sonatinas like Kuhlau, Koehler, Diabelli, Beethoven etc. And the Album für die Jugend from Tschaikowsky, too. Sometimes Schumann, sometimes Tschaikowsky. And I really LOVED little Schubert pieces. From my grandmother we had an old book of easy opera transcriptions and I really loved this, too (Händel "Xerxes" for example and stuff like that) and she also had a 4 hand book with transcriptions with really crazy stuff that was modern when she was a child (russian national anthem from 1904 for example, festivity songs from the Rhine area, german folk songs in very amazing poetic transcriptions etc.). Unfortunately this book is not printed nowadays, it was incredibly beautiful, very poetic and full of fantasy.
Hi Danae. It would be interesting to see how a piano learner would progress through such different pieces and how you would guide him or her to improve and polish a piece if you have students under your guidance. Thanks!
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Thanks for watching! :) I personally went through most of those pieces myself when starting out on the piano. :)
Thank you for the video. I have started piano two weeks ago and i am learning Bach minuet in G major. I'm having a hard time haha. But every day i wake up and i notice i have made little progress so i am happy with how it's going. But my study is kinda messy because i am also learning the very beginning of chopin ballade number one in g minor (maybe my favorite piece ever)
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Wow that’s very impressive. Keep going, it is going to be so worth it! :)
Great Repertoire❤️ Excerpts from almost all pieces you‘ve mentioned I have uploaded on my channel here. Even these small pieces are full of music and so precious😍😍☺️☺️
So I was watching the video, and wasn't sure I recognized any of the pieces you mentioned, just by hearing their names. (In fairness, there's a LOT of music I know by heart, that I don't remember the name of the piece or even who its composer is, I just recognize it when I hear it. Makes it difficult to try to look up some pieces online, cause I might know the chords, accompaniment pattern, riffs, etc, but not much about the lyrics for those types of songs. Also while I might know the melody or at least part of it, I feel like I need the instrumentation, chords, etc. as well, especially for less well-known songs.) BUT ... when I look up some of those pieces on CZcams, I recognized: Bach: Inventio 1 In C Major, BWV 772 Inventio 4 In D Minor, BWV 775 (actually recognized this one from its use at the beginning of an arrangement I've heard of the gospel hymn "We Shall Behold Him", although that one started in the key of C Minor. I can't find it online, but I might still have a MIDI file of it, that I had gotten back in the mid/late 1990s or so, buried somewhere on my other PC.) Inventio 8 In F Major, BWV 779 Clementi: Sonatina No. 1 In C Major I. Allegro Sonatina No. 2 In G Major (maybe) I. Allegretto Sonatina No. 3 In C Major (maybe) I. Spiritoso Sonatina No. 4 In F Major (maybe) I. Con spirito Sonatina No. 5 In G Major (maybe) I. Presto Sonatina No. 6 In D Major I. Allegro con spirito Schumann (there were some others that almost sounded somewhat familiar but I couldn't quite put my finger on them. These were quickly recognized though): 10. Fröhlicher Landmann, von der Arbeit zurückkehrend 12. Knecht Ruprecht 28. Erinnerung I almost feel like I"ve heard John Field's Nocturne 5 in B-flat major, H.37 Andantino somewhere before.... Chopin Mazurkas: Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 68 No. 2 Mazurkas, Op. 6: I. M.M. in F-Sharp Minor (While looking up Thomas Larcher, I came up with some in a style I generally don't care for -- basically with more dissonant chords, odd timings, etc, that's mostly found in more recent pieces, at least I think composed within the last 50 or 100 years or so. Then I realized my search results also included some other pieces and I had clicked on those. Finding the poems, I see I could probably grow to like some of those.) Oh, of course ... Mozart, Piano Sonata in C major, No 16, K 545, Allegro ... I recognized that one. (Why is it, though, that I can almost never seem to remember to connect the names of pieces to what I remember them sounding like? Also I often don't recognize pieces just by reading the sheet ... fairly recently I came across... I think it was the sheet music to the first movement of Moonlight Sonata and I didn't recognize it at first. Speaking of Moonlight Sonata ... I might want to try to prank some friends that might only know the first movement, if I have an opportunity.... if I'm sitting at a piano and someone asks me to play Moonlight Sonata .... play the *THIRD* movement. 😂 I'd need to learn it, though.)
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Haha love that idea with the Moonlight! 😂 also, very impressive that you connect everything by ear, it is a sign of your musicality!
Great video! I didn't knew about John Field's Nocturnes they sound very pretty, I am definitely going to try to play some of those. I would recommend also 11 Pezzi Infantili by Alfredo Casella
Hello Danae and thank you very much for this video. A question arises. You are suggesting about ten books. Is there any order in which they have to be follow? Or it has to be played one piece of each one at time? Thank you
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This depends on the amount of time you have, but generally, I would suggest a selection of different styles as a repertoire. Maybe one Bach, one or a couple of technical Czerny study for example and one classical piece. This is more or less how I started learning. :) Thanks for watching and happy holidays!
Hello, is there a written list of these recommendations to which I may refer and purchase? Thanks!
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There is no written list, however you can purchase all of the titles that I mentioned in the video online from any music shop. Hope this helps and thanks so much for watching 🙏🏻
When Iooked.for.these titled on scribd they were described as advanced Your idea of what a.beginner is interesting what would.you consider advanced?
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Haha I guess this always depends on the perspective of course. Although I would say that the „Russian School of Piano“ and some of the other pieces that I mentioned in this video, truly are „beginner“ repertoire pieces - under all circumstances. Some of the other ones might be moving towards intermediate, however I am speaking form the perspective of a professional pianist looking back at my very early stages and the pieces that I and piano students around me played in the very first years of learning the piano. All the best to you!
Hi! What would be a good age for a child to start playing piano?
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I think that anything between the ages of 5-8 is good if you want to have the option of a professional career in piano. If you do it “only” as a hobby, any age is great. 😉
How can find the books you mentioned in the video, J.S Bach
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I use the edition of Henle - is there a way you can order them in your local music store? Otherwise, you could also use IMSLP. Here is a direct link to the score of these specific pieces: imslp.org/wiki/Kleine_Präludien_und_Fughetten_(Bach%2C_Johann_Sebastian)
Perhaps you should make it clear that you are recommending only volumes 1 and 2 of the Mikrokosmos for beginners. The later volumes are quite advanced and difficult.
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Oh yes, that‘s very true. Thanks for adding that! :)
If I were to study piano with you it would be extremely difficult for me to concentrate on what you were trying to teach me because I would be so distracted by your beauty. And if I tied your hands behind you back you would not be able to to talk. lol
Thanks Danae :)
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REPERTOIRE - BEGINNER PIANO
Russian School of Piano (3 volumes)
J. S. BACH - Kleine Präludien und Fughtten
BELLA BARTOK - Mikrokosmos Bände I-II
CLEMENTI - Sonatinas
SCHUMANN - Album for the young
JOHN FIELD - Nocturnes - (First composer to write nocturnes)
CHOPIN - Waltz in Bm
CHOPIN - Waltz in Fm
CHOPIN - Mazurkas
THOMAS LARCHER - POEMS - 12 pièces pour pianistes et autres enfants
MOZART - Sonata Facile - Piano Sonata in C major KV 545
PROKOFIEV - Music for Children Op. 65
Great recomendations!!! Thanks a lot.
I'm just a beginner and I also recommend: Album for Anna Magdalena Bach, and Burgmuller Op.100 25 easy studies. Very enjoyable both of them.
Great suggestion!
Thank you for this wonderful video. I couldn't agree more. I use the Russian Piano Schools volume 1 and 2 for my beginner students as well and have made really good experiences with them. Whoever is starting with piano: Danae knows what she is talking about. Listen to her. ;) I always enjoy watching your videos! Hope you are doing well. Greetings from Regensburg!
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After listening to your video, I searched out your recommendations for beginners repertoire, and enjoyed playing them immensely. I started with different repertoire in England, so it was great to play pieces that started your journey off.
Ps. I agree with you that the Bartok pieces are brilliant!
Richard.
I'd add Stephen Hellers etudes (called etudes, but are actual pieces of music, not Czerny etude style finger exercises). Tchaikovsky's Album for Children is awesome (liked it more than the Schumann one when I was starting out). Also Granados has written an album for children - some really pretty pieces in there.
Field's 5th nocturne was my introduction into the world of Nocturnes - really nice one.
I absolutely hated Bartoks Microcosm as a beginner though. Whenever my teacher suggested it, I've thrown him an evil look. 🤪
Haha that’s funny! ;) How great that you also played the Field Nocturne No. 5 - it was my first Nocturne as well. Yes, and I completely agree with the Stephen Heller and the Tchaikovsky Album for Children!
When I was a child I played a lot of Sonatinas like Kuhlau, Koehler, Diabelli, Beethoven etc. And the Album für die Jugend from Tschaikowsky, too. Sometimes Schumann, sometimes Tschaikowsky. And I really LOVED little Schubert pieces. From my grandmother we had an old book of easy opera transcriptions and I really loved this, too (Händel "Xerxes" for example and stuff like that) and she also had a 4 hand book with transcriptions with really crazy stuff that was modern when she was a child (russian national anthem from 1904 for example, festivity songs from the Rhine area, german folk songs in very amazing poetic transcriptions etc.). Unfortunately this book is not printed nowadays, it was incredibly beautiful, very poetic and full of fantasy.
Thanks for adding this!!
Great. I've got many of these. But I started to study just some years back
Hi Danae. It would be interesting to see how a piano learner would progress through such different pieces and how you would guide him or her to improve and polish a piece if you have students under your guidance. Thanks!
Thanks for watching! :) I personally went through most of those pieces myself when starting out on the piano. :)
Thank you for the video. I have started piano two weeks ago and i am learning Bach minuet in G major. I'm having a hard time haha. But every day i wake up and i notice i have made little progress so i am happy with how it's going. But my study is kinda messy because i am also learning the very beginning of chopin ballade number one in g minor (maybe my favorite piece ever)
Wow that’s very impressive. Keep going, it is going to be so worth it! :)
Thanks a lot for your time!!!
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I'm loving your videos. Keep it up!
Thanks so much! 🤗
Great Repertoire❤️ Excerpts from almost all pieces you‘ve mentioned I have uploaded on my channel here. Even these small pieces are full of music and so precious😍😍☺️☺️
🙏🏻🤗
I remember I had wonderful and stressful moments with some pieces from "For Children" by Bartók
😂 this seems to be a polarizing piece in general 😉
What a great video idea! Have only watched the first 30 seconds but already know that I will love it! 😍
Thank you so much! 🤗🙏🏻
Thanks so much for such nice recommendations! Especially Thomas Larcher!!!
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So I was watching the video, and wasn't sure I recognized any of the pieces you mentioned, just by hearing their names. (In fairness, there's a LOT of music I know by heart, that I don't remember the name of the piece or even who its composer is, I just recognize it when I hear it. Makes it difficult to try to look up some pieces online, cause I might know the chords, accompaniment pattern, riffs, etc, but not much about the lyrics for those types of songs. Also while I might know the melody or at least part of it, I feel like I need the instrumentation, chords, etc. as well, especially for less well-known songs.)
BUT ... when I look up some of those pieces on CZcams, I recognized:
Bach:
Inventio 1 In C Major, BWV 772
Inventio 4 In D Minor, BWV 775 (actually recognized this one from its use at the beginning of an arrangement I've heard of the gospel hymn "We Shall Behold Him", although that one started in the key of C Minor. I can't find it online, but I might still have a MIDI file of it, that I had gotten back in the mid/late 1990s or so, buried somewhere on my other PC.)
Inventio 8 In F Major, BWV 779
Clementi:
Sonatina No. 1 In C Major
I. Allegro
Sonatina No. 2 In G Major
(maybe) I. Allegretto
Sonatina No. 3 In C Major
(maybe) I. Spiritoso
Sonatina No. 4 In F Major
(maybe) I. Con spirito
Sonatina No. 5 In G Major
(maybe) I. Presto
Sonatina No. 6 In D Major
I. Allegro con spirito
Schumann (there were some others that almost sounded somewhat familiar but I couldn't quite put my finger on them. These were quickly recognized though):
10. Fröhlicher Landmann, von der Arbeit zurückkehrend
12. Knecht Ruprecht
28. Erinnerung
I almost feel like I"ve heard John Field's Nocturne 5 in B-flat major, H.37 Andantino somewhere before....
Chopin Mazurkas:
Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 68 No. 2
Mazurkas, Op. 6: I. M.M. in F-Sharp Minor
(While looking up Thomas Larcher, I came up with some in a style I generally don't care for -- basically with more dissonant chords, odd timings, etc, that's mostly found in more recent pieces, at least I think composed within the last 50 or 100 years or so. Then I realized my search results also included some other pieces and I had clicked on those. Finding the poems, I see I could probably grow to like some of those.)
Oh, of course ... Mozart, Piano Sonata in C major, No 16, K 545, Allegro
... I recognized that one.
(Why is it, though, that I can almost never seem to remember to connect the names of pieces to what I remember them sounding like? Also I often don't recognize pieces just by reading the sheet ... fairly recently I came across... I think it was the sheet music to the first movement of Moonlight Sonata and I didn't recognize it at first.
Speaking of Moonlight Sonata ... I might want to try to prank some friends that might only know the first movement, if I have an opportunity.... if I'm sitting at a piano and someone asks me to play Moonlight Sonata .... play the *THIRD* movement. 😂 I'd need to learn it, though.)
Haha love that idea with the Moonlight! 😂 also, very impressive that you connect everything by ear, it is a sign of your musicality!
thankyou so much .it help me alot.
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Great video! I didn't knew about John Field's Nocturnes they sound very pretty, I am definitely going to try to play some of those. I would recommend also 11 Pezzi Infantili by Alfredo Casella
Thanks for the recommendation! 🙏🏻
Thank you for the recommendations!
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Hello Danae and thank you very much for this video. A question arises. You are suggesting about ten books. Is there any order in which they have to be follow? Or it has to be played one piece of each one at time? Thank you
This depends on the amount of time you have, but generally, I would suggest a selection of different styles as a repertoire. Maybe one Bach, one or a couple of technical Czerny study for example and one classical piece. This is more or less how I started learning. :) Thanks for watching and happy holidays!
Hello, is there a written list of these recommendations to which I may refer and purchase? Thanks!
There is no written list, however you can purchase all of the titles that I mentioned in the video online from any music shop. Hope this helps and thanks so much for watching 🙏🏻
When Iooked.for.these titled on scribd they were described as advanced
Your idea of what a.beginner is interesting what would.you consider advanced?
Haha I guess this always depends on the perspective of course. Although I would say that the „Russian School of Piano“ and some of the other pieces that I mentioned in this video, truly are „beginner“ repertoire pieces - under all circumstances. Some of the other ones might be moving towards intermediate, however I am speaking form the perspective of a professional pianist looking back at my very early stages and the pieces that I and piano students around me played in the very first years of learning the piano. All the best to you!
I wish you would have listed the books in the description or comments.
Thanks for the suggestion, I will definitely keep it in mind and list things in my video next time. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Hi! What would be a good age for a child to start playing piano?
I think that anything between the ages of 5-8 is good if you want to have the option of a professional career in piano. If you do it “only” as a hobby, any age is great. 😉
@ my niece is 1 1/2 years old now, so still time enough to see if she develops interest for piano playing. Would be fun to help her starting.
How can find the books you mentioned in the video, J.S Bach
I use the edition of Henle - is there a way you can order them in your local music store? Otherwise, you could also use IMSLP. Here is a direct link to the score of these specific pieces: imslp.org/wiki/Kleine_Präludien_und_Fughetten_(Bach%2C_Johann_Sebastian)
Perhaps you should make it clear that you are recommending only volumes 1 and 2 of the Mikrokosmos for beginners. The later volumes are quite advanced and difficult.
Oh yes, that‘s very true. Thanks for adding that! :)
I am a Taiwanese and I can't find those books on google
If I were to study piano with you it would be extremely difficult for me to concentrate on what you were trying to teach me because I would be so distracted by your beauty. And if I tied your hands behind you back you would not be able to to talk. lol