Favorite Classical Themes (Easy To Intermediate Piano Solo)

Favorite Classical Themes (Easy To Intermediate Piano Solo)

ΠEPIEXOMENA

Tomaso Albinoni

• Adagio in G Minor

Johann Sebastian Bach

• Bist du bei mir (You are with me)
• Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, First Movement Excerpt
• Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, First Movement Excerpt
• Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

Ludwig van Beethoven

• Turkish March (from The Ruins of Athens)
• Piano Concerto No. 5 (“Emperor”), First Movement Excerpt
• Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, First Movement Excerpt
• Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Second Movement Excerpt

Johannes Brahms

• Lullaby (Wiegenlied)
• Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Fourth Movement Excerpt
• Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, First Movement Excerpt

Claude Debussy

• Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Opening Excerpt

Antonin Dvorak

• Symphony No. 9 in E Minor (“From the New World”), Second Movement Excerpt

Gabriel Faure

• Apres un reve (After a dream)

Cesar Franck

• Panis angelicus

Francois-Joseph Gossec

• Gavotte

Charles Gounod

• Funeral March of a Marionette, Themes

Edvard Grieg

• In the Hall of the Mountain King (from Peer Gynt)

George Frideric Handel

• Allegro (from Water Music)
• Air (from Water Music)
• Hallelujah (from Messiah), Excerpt
• Pastoral Symphony (from Messiah)
• I Know That My Redeemer Liveth (from Messiah), Excerpt

Franz Joseph Haydn

• Gypsy Rondo
• Symphony No. 104 (“London”), First Movement Excerpt
• The Heavens Are Telling (from The Creation)
• Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major,
• First Movement Excerpt

Gustav Mahler

• Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (“Resurrection”), Fifth Movement Choral Theme
• Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp Minor, Fourth Movement Excerpt (Adagietto)

Felix Mendelssohn

• “Fingal’s Cave” Overture, or “The Hebrides” Themes
• Violin Concerto in E Minor, First Movement Excerpt

Jean Joseph Mouret

• Rondeau, Excerpt

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• Ave verum corpus
• Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major (“Elvira Madigan”), Second Movement Excerpt
• Lacrymosa (from Requiem)
• Symphony No. 38 (“Prague”), First Movement Excerpt
• Symphony No. 41 in C Major (“Jupiter”), First Movement Excerpt

Jacques Offenbach

• Can Can (from Orpheus in the Underworld)

Johann Pachelbel

• Canon, Excerpt

Hubert Parry

• Jerusalem

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

• Sheherazade, Themes from Part 1

Camille Saint-Saens

• The Swan (from Carnival of the Animals)

Franz Schubert

• Die Forelle (The Trout)
• Ave Maria
• Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, First Movement Excerpt

Robert Schumann

• Ich grolle nicht (I bear no grudge)
• Piano Concerto in A Minor, First Movement Themes

Bedrich Smetana

• The Moldau (from Ma Vlast), Excerpt

Johann Strauss, Jr.

• By the Beautiful Blue Danube, Themes
• Tales from the Vienna Woods, Themes

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

• 1812 Overture, Excerpt
• Marche Slav, Themes
• Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (from The Nutcracker)
• Dance of the Reed-Flutes (from The Nutcracker)
• Dance of the Swans (from Swan Lake)
• Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture, Excerpt
• Symphony No. 6 (“Pathetique”), First Movement Excerpt
• Violin Concerto, First Movement Excerpt

Giuseppe Verdi

• Lacrymosa (from Requiem)

Antonio Vivaldi

• The Four Seasons, “Autumn,” First Movement Excerpt Gloria in excelsis (from Gloria)
• Mandolin Concerto in C Major, First Movement Excerpt