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The Piano Bench of Easy Classical Music, edited and arranged by Amy Appleby, is an easy piano solo sheet music collection featuring classical works from four centuries of musical history. This anthology brings together beloved piano compositions and themes from symphonies, operas, ballets, and chamber music. It offers developing pianists, piano teachers, and classical music enthusiasts a varied repertoire for practice, musical exploration, and personal performance.

The collection includes easy piano solo arrangements of preludes, minuets, sonata movements, nocturnes, waltzes, gavottes, mazurkas, and romantic character pieces. Music by Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, and other celebrated composers provides opportunities to explore contrasting musical styles, expressive phrasing, rhythm, and interpretation. This extensive anthology offers a substantial musical reference for the piano bench or music library.

Familiar melodies sit alongside expressive shorter works and orchestral themes, creating a rewarding selection for regular practice, repertoire discovery, and informal recitals. The variety encourages pianists to revisit favorite composers while discovering music from different historical periods.

Song List

Fur Elise * Moonlight Sonata * Clair de Lune * Ode to Joy * Minuet in G * Rondo Alla Turca * Liebestraum * Reverie * Prelude in E Minor * Prelude in A * The Blue Danube Waltz * Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy * Waltz of the Flowers * The Swan * Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring * Hungarian Dance No. 5 * Traumerei * To a Wild Rose * Morning * The Flight of the Bumble Bee * Air on the G String * Hallelujah Chorus * Skaters' Waltz * The Happy Farmer * Ave Maria * Nocturne * Military Polonaise * Fantasie Impromptu * The Toreador Song * Sleeping Beauty Waltz * The Stars and Stripes Forever * and more

Amy Appleby is a critically-acclaimed author of books and recordings on music. Educated at Yale University, she has helped millions of readers play, read, and compose music in a wide range of musical styles.