THE BEST PIANO REPERTOIRE FOR BEGINNERS // Top 10 Works To Learn When Starting To Play The Piano 

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.

Thanks a lot for your time!!!

Thank you for the recommendations!

Thanks so much for such nice recommendations! Especially Thomas Larcher!!!

Great. I've got many of these. But I started to study just some years back

I'm loving your videos. Keep it up!

thankyou so much .it help me alot.

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)

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😍😍☺️☺️

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

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. 🤪

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!

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

I remember I had wonderful and stressful moments with some pieces from "For Children" by Bartók

What a great video idea! Have only watched the first 30 seconds but already know that I will love it! 😍

Hello, is there a written list of these recommendations to which I may refer and purchase? Thanks!

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 RU-vid, 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.)

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

How can find the books you mentioned in the video, J.S Bach

Hi! What would be a good age for a child to start playing piano?

I wish you would have listed the books in the description or comments.

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?

I am a Taiwanese and I can't find those books on google

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.

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