Alexander Scriabin
1872 – 1915 · Late Romantic
Alexander Scriabin began writing Chopin-influenced miniatures and ended his career inventing his own quasi-mystical harmonic system. His ten piano sonatas and m…
34 scores
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Claude Debussy
1862 – 1918 · Impressionist
Claude Debussy reinvented the piano. His Préludes, Études, Images, Estampes, and Children's Corner replaced traditional development with colour, perfume, and at…
55 scores
Domenico Scarlatti
1685 – 1757 · Baroque
Domenico Scarlatti wrote 555 single-movement keyboard sonatas, mostly in binary form, that combine Iberian guitar idioms, daring harmonic shifts, and a feisty I…
80 scores
Erik Satie
1866 – 1925 · Impressionist
Erik Satie's slim, ironic piano miniatures — the three Gymnopédies, the Gnossiennes, the Pièces froides — invented an alternative French keyboard tradition: spa…
14 scores
Felix Mendelssohn
1809 – 1847 · Romantic
Felix Mendelssohn's eight books of Lieder ohne Worte are among the most enduring nineteenth-century miniatures — singing right-hand melodies over a luminous, we…
60 scores
Franz Liszt
1811 – 1886 · Romantic
Franz Liszt redefined what was technically possible at the piano. His Études d'exécution transcendante, the B-minor Sonata, the Années de pèlerinage, and the op…
46 scores
Franz Schubert
1797 – 1828 · Romantic
Franz Schubert's piano music sits at the cusp of Classical and Romantic — the architecture of Mozart and Beethoven, the lyricism of his own song cycles, and a h…
55 scores
François Couperin
1668 – 1733 · Baroque
François Couperin's four books of Pièces de clavecin contain more than two hundred ordres of harpsichord pieces — character sketches, dances, and tableaux that …
20 scores
Frédéric Chopin
1810 – 1849 · Romantic
Frédéric Chopin wrote almost exclusively for the piano. His preludes, études, nocturnes, ballades, scherzos, polonaises, mazurkas, and waltzes invented the Roma…
157 scores
Gabriel Fauré
1845 – 1924 · Late Romantic
Gabriel Fauré's Nocturnes, Barcarolles, and Impromptus form a private, elegantly modulating world halfway between Chopin and Debussy. His harmonic language, esp…
31 scores
George Frideric Handel
1685 – 1759 · Baroque
George Frideric Handel's keyboard suites — eight in the famous 1720 collection and a second set published later — combine the French overture, Italian aria, and…
42 scores
Jean-Philippe Rameau
1683 – 1764 · Baroque
Jean-Philippe Rameau's three published books of harpsichord pieces are the high point of the French Baroque keyboard repertoire alongside Couperin — bolder in h…
14 scores
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 – 1750 · Baroque
Johann Sebastian Bach is the central figure of the late Baroque keyboard tradition and, by common agreement, the greatest contrapuntist in Western music. His ke…
216 scores
Johannes Brahms
1833 – 1897 · Late Romantic
Johannes Brahms's piano music spans the early sonatas, the Paganini and Handel variation sets, and a final great body of late character pieces — the Op. 116 to …
67 scores
Joseph Haydn
1732 – 1809 · Classical
Joseph Haydn wrote more than fifty keyboard sonatas across a career that effectively invented the Classical sonata. Wit, surprise, and a profound mastery of for…
158 scores
Ludwig van Beethoven
1770 – 1827 · Classical
Ludwig van Beethoven's thirty-two piano sonatas form the most important single body of work in the keyboard repertoire — what Hans von Bülow called the New Test…
151 scores
Maurice Ravel
1875 – 1937 · Impressionist
Maurice Ravel's piano writing is famously precise — Gaspard de la nuit, Miroirs, Le Tombeau de Couperin, the Sonatine, and Jeux d'eau combine impressionist colo…
21 scores
Robert Schumann
1810 – 1856 · Romantic
Robert Schumann's piano cycles — Carnaval, Kreisleriana, Davidsbündlertänze, Kinderszenen, Fantasiestücke, the Symphonic Etudes — invented the Romantic characte…
64 scores
Sergei Rachmaninoff
1873 – 1943 · Late Romantic
Sergei Rachmaninoff carried the Romantic piano tradition into the twentieth century. His Préludes, Études-Tableaux, Moments musicaux, and two sonatas are huge, …
43 scores
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756 – 1791 · Classical
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote eighteen numbered piano sonatas, two dozen sets of variations, and a small constellation of fantasias and rondos that together def…
64 scores