On this page you will find lists of recommended composers and their pieces for piano, grouped by periods and styles
Names of recommended performers, and some links to videos and audio recordings are under the next tab. Explore!
Baroque Period. I recommend to listen to some of it performed on piano, and some of it performed on harpsichord and organ
J.S. Bach.
Music for harpsichord:
- French Suites
- English Suites
- Partitas
- Well Tempered Clavier. Two volumes of 24 preludes and Fugues each
- Clavier-Ubung
- Piano Concertos
- Anna Magdalena Notebook.
Music for Organ:
- 1Six Sonatas (BWV 525–530)
- 2In the form of a Prelude, Toccata, Fantasia, Passacaglia, middle movement and/or Fugue (BWV 531–582)
- 3Trios (BWV 583–586)
- 4Miscellaneous pieces (BWV 587–591)
- 5Concerti for organ (BWV 592–597)
- 6Pedal exercise (BWV 598)
- 7Chorale Preludes
Dietrich Buxtehude
Domenico Scalratti
Johann Pachelbel
- Canon in D
- 3.1.1Chorale preludes
- 3.1.2Fugues
- 3.1.3Chaconnes and variations
- 3.1.4Toccatas
- 3.1.5Fantasias
- 3.1.6Preludes
Jean-Philippe Rameau
François Couperin
George Frideric Handel
- Suites
- Partitas
- Airs
- Chaconnes
Classical Period. I recommend to mix listening to piano solo pieces with pieces written for piano in collaboration with other instruments, like concertos or ensemble music (for chamber music, pls see “chamber music” tab)
Joseph Haydn
- 62 Sonatas
- Variations
- Concertos
Muzio Clementi
- Sonatas
- Sonatinas
- Miscellaneous pieces
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Sonatas
- Concertos
- Fantasias
- Sonatinas
- Variations
- Rondos
Ludwig Van Beethoven
- 32 Sonatas
- 5 Concertos
- Variations
- Bagatelles
- Rondos
Franz Schubert
- Sonatas
- Wanderer Fantasy
- Impromtu
- Musical Moments
- Ecossaises
- Waltzes
- Minuets
Romantic Period
Felix Mendelssohn
- Sonatas
- Songs Without Words
- Preludes
- Varied short pieces
- Complete list
Frederic Chopin
- Sonatas
- Preludes
- Etudes
- Polonaises
- Waltzes
- Mazurkas
- Concertos
- Eccossaises
- Rondos
- Impromtus
- Nocturnes
- Complete list