The Symphony

Series: World’s Greatest Classical Music

Composer: Various

Piano Level: Easy to Intermediate

This collection in The World’s Great Classical Music series features 60 excerpts from 46 symphonies by a dozen beloved composers, faithfully transcribed for easy to intermediate piano solo. Composers represented are: Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Bruckner, Dvorák, Haydn, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Tchaikovsky. The book also gives a brief biography of each composer.

Also available for Intermediate to Advanced Piano Solo (00220032).

Contents: BEETHOVEN SYMPHONIES: No. 1, 1st & 3rd mvt. excerpts • No. 2, 1st & 3rd mvt. excerpts • No. 3, 1st mvt. excerpt • No. 4, 1st mvt. excerpt • No. 5, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, & 4th mvt. excerpts • No. 6, 1st, 3rd, & 5th mvt. excerpts • No. 7, 1st & 2nd mvt. excerpts • No. 8, 1st & 3rd mvt. excerpts • No. 9, 4th mvt. excerpt • BERLIOZ: Symphonie Fantastique, 4th & 5th mvt. excerpts • BRAHMS SYMPHONIES: No. 1, 4th mvt. excerpt • No. 2, 1st mvt. excerpt • No. 3, 3rd mvt. excerpt • No. 4, 1st mvt. excerpt • BRUCKNER SYMPHONIES: No. 4, 1st mvt. excerpt • No. 7, 2nd mvt. excerpt • DVORAK SYMPHONIES: No. 8, 3rd mvt excerpt • No. 9, 2nd & 4th mvt. excerpts • HAYDN SYMPHONIES: No. 94, 2nd mvt. excerpt • No. 101, 3rd mvt. excerpt • No. 104, 1st mvt. excerpt • MAHLER SYMPHONIES: No. 1, 3rd mvt. Opening Theme • No. 2, 5th mvt. Choral Theme • No. 4, 3rd mvt. excerpt • No. 5, 4th mvt. excerpt • No. 8, 2nd mvt. excerpt • MENDELSSOHN SYMPHONIES: No. 3, 1st mvt. Themes • No. 4, 1st mvt. excerpt • MOZART SYMPHONIES: No. 25, 1st mvt. excerpt • No. 29, 1st mvt. excerpt • No. 35, 1st mvt. excerpt • No. 36, 1st mvt. excerpt • No. 38, 1st mvt. excerpt • No. 39, 1st mvt. excerpt • No. 40, 1st & 3rd mvt. excerpts • No. 41, 1st, & 3rd mvt. excerpts • SCHUBERT SYMPHONIES: No. 4, 2nd mvt. excerpt • No. 5, 1st mvt. excerpt • No. 8, 1st mvt. excerpt • No. 9, 1st mvt. excerpt • SCHUMANN SYMPHONIES: No. 1, 3rd mvt. excerpt • No. 3, 1st mvt. excerpt • TCHAIKOVSKY SYMPHONIES: No. 3, 1st & 3rd mvt. excerpts • No. 4, 2nd mvt. excerpt • No. 5, 3rd mvt. excerpt • No. 6, 1st mvt. excerpt