The book is a collection of 12 simplified classical music masterpieces.
The purpose of easy arrangements is to make classical music accessible to everyone: if you are starting to play piano or if you want to play your favorite piece in a simple or relaxing way.

Level: early intemediate

Contents:
Prelude in C (J. S. Bach) - Lacrimosa (W. A. Mozart) - Moonlight Sonata (L. V. Beethoven) - Path�tique (L. V. Beethoven) - Violin Concerto (F. Mendelssohn) - Nocturne Op.9 No.2 (F. Chopin) - La Campanella (F. Liszt) - Hungarian Dance No.5 (J. Brahms) - Danse Macabre (C. Saint-Sa�ns) - Habanera (G. Bizet) - Asturias (I. Albeniz) - Allegro con fuoco (A. Dvor�k)

I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to the celebrated pianist Nicolas Horvath for enthusiastically
bringing my Debussy works to public attention in their solo piano formats, both through his recent
recitals across France and through this Naxos Grand Piano release (GP822). In some cases these are
true piano pieces (like Toomai des �l�phants), in others they are piano reductions of orchestral scores
(like F�tes galantes), while in others they are piano solos in their own right that also exist in orchestral
versions (as in the incidental music for Le Roi Lear). Needless to say, most of these tracks are world
premi�re recordings, and this is certainly true of A Night in the House of Usher and its companion piece Un Jour affreux avec Le Diable dans le beffroi (?A Dreadful Day with the Devil in the Belfry?) which I arranged specially for Nicolas in November 2018 as a virtuosic, almost Lisztian paraphrase-fantasy. To remind us of the plot as the dramatic scenes unfold, Un Jour affreux avec le Diable dans le beffroi, like the start of No-ja-li) has a narrator (spoken in French by Florient Azoulay on the Grand Piano recording):

[After an overture rising from the underworld, with a polka and a citation of a chldren?s folksong Savez vous plantez les choux?, a carillon rings out]: Hearing it, the Dutch villagers start to count, with the bells of the belfry / 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 8, 9, 11, and 12 / Perfect! / 13!?!/ The bell rang 13 times / 13! / The Devil is here where the clock should be! / Damn! / The bells are cracked. / The Devil laughs fit to burst / He pulls from the pocket of his coat, a small dancing master?s violin / ?My God!? says the devil ? and he tunes his violin slowly / The Devil leads the villagers in a fantastic and relentless jig [making jokes at the expense of concertos by Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky] / The Devil directs the villagers towards the canal ? where he jumps to the other side, laughing all the time / The villagers try to imitate him, but they fall into the water. / [In Part 2] the villagers are transported to a hedonistic and lively Italian village. They are similarly transformed: the men have crooked hats ? the women have wide open bodices! They dance a mad Tarantella / 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 13 / shouting ?Hey there! (Hola?) / Jean, the young hero, makes a fervent prayer to God against the Devil / The prayer is answered and the bell again rings normally! / The expression of the Devil changes: he shudders! / Everything goes black / The devil disappears in a brief red glow ? / And the carillon and the bells chime as usual / 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 / Perfect! / But the Devil?s grinning face ap-
pears once again where the clock should be ? briefly

J.S. Bach - Praeludium II
The original piece was composed by Franz Liszt in 1722. It is part of The Well-Tempered Clavier, a collection of two books of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys.

The books in this series present study guides for masterworks, beginning at the early intermediate level, that the editors believe developing pianists should study and perform. Each book contains 20 study guides to pieces selected from the four main style periods. Book 5 contains selections for advanced pianists. Titles: Prelude from English Suite No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 808 (Bach) * Sinfonia from Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826 (Bach) * Air and Variations (?The Harmonious Blacksmith?) (Handel) * Sonata in E Major, K.380; L.23 (Scarlatti) * Sonata in C Minor (?Path�tique?), Op.13 (Beethoven) * Sonata in C Major, Hob.XVI/50; L.60 (I) (Haydn) * Sonata in C Major, K.330 (I) (Mozart) * Intermezzo in A Major, Op.118, No.2 (Brahms) * Fantaisie-Impromptu, Op.66 (Chopin) * Consolation No. 3 in D-flat Major, S.172 (Liszt) * Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op.3, No.2 (Rachmaninoff) * Impromptu in A-flat Major, Op.142, No.2, Posth.; D.935 (Schubert) * Aufschwung (Soaring), Op.12, No.2 (Schumann) Sonatina, Sz.55 I. (Bart�k) * Ritual Fire Dance (De Falla) * Clair de lune (Debussy) * La fille aux cheveux de lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair) (Debussy) * Maple Leaf Rag (Joplin)

"La campanella" (Italian for "The little bell") isthe nickname given to the third of Franz Liszt's six Grandes �tudes de Paganini.This arrangement is an easy piano version in the Key of A-minor.