Music by the Masters
Intermediate Piano Solos Sheet Music Book

I used this book when I was a student 50 years ago and I'm using it now as a teacher. It's got a wonderful collection of pieces from baroque to romantic periods, ranging from intermediate to late-intermediate.

Actual print quality is rough. You can read it, but it's not easy on the eyes. The binding is bad - you will have trouble keeping this open at the right page without something to hold it. It doesn't include the opus number of most pieces, which is an...

odd, annoying choice. Worst of all there are some very strange editorial decisions. Case in point, Beethoven's Ecossaise in G is included (WoO 23, but the book doesn't tell you that!). One of its defining qualities is a very prominent A# at the end of the first phrase. In this book it's printed as a B. So decent collection, but now I feel I have to cross check everything against other published versions.

This is a songbook with well-known composers and pieces for the intermediate piano player. I really enjoy the selection of music in here! Must be comfortable with 16th notes and accidentals to play.

Still have my original copy from the 1960s and I greatly enjoy playing these pieces as a form of relaxation. Originally, I learned most of them on the piano, but now play many on the clavichord (meantone tuning with short octave). A great collection with something for just about all...

tastes in Baroque and Classical Periods.

I was disappointed that there was little music in this that I didn't already have some place else. Maybe there was an index that I should have paid more attention to. It's hard to keep the book OPEN as you play which makes it less inviting.