Burgmüller - Twenty-Five Easy and Progressive Studies, Op. 100 | Piano Method for Intermediate Players | Schirmer Library of Musical Classics | Sheet Music for Small Hands

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This book is absolutely wonderful. I took 1 year of piano lessons in 6th grade. I’m now in my 40’s and decided to take piano up again as an adult. I worked my way quickly through the Fabre all in one and knew I needed a different direction. After much research I bought this book.It is not for absolute beginners. I would say level 1 rcm can probably struggle through the a few but really it is about a solid level 2. I started at the beginning and am about halfway through. I practice 1 to 2 hours daily and have several pieces at varying degrees. Some are final spot and polish and some are at the sight reading practice stage. Of course you will love some more than others. I really play the heck out of some of them. Arabesque is great for increasing speed, Courant Limpide distracted me when I noticed my hands looked like ballet dancers, Ballade really lets the left hand shine. I am learning new skills with each piece and past pieces keep improving as my skills and stamina increase.If you want a more classical approach to learning piano with not too difficult pieces that nonetheless sound impressive, this is for you! I started this book May 1 and it’s now September and I am about halfway through learning these pieces though it will likely take me two years to feel like I have fully mastered them.

I am a student of piano; I started last year, rather late in life. I bought a new piano in February and my instructor came over to give it a good "breaking in". He was playing music I likely will never be able to even attempt, from Beethoven, Bach, and Mozart. Then, he played some of the etudes from this work by Burgmuller. I thought to myself "this sounds like it is within reach!" I bought this, and started in on Etude #1. I thought my instructor was going to have kittens when he heard me trying to play it, saying I was tackling this way too early. But, tackle it I did. Even though I have played for only 14 or 15 months, I am able to play this with at least some competence.Quibbles: #2, L’Arabesque, is supposed to have staccato chords pretty much all the way through. They are not notated as such exceptat the beginning. Not sure about the other pieces yet. Some of the printing is smeared (La Candeur, line 4, last measure). I looked in my instructor’s 30+ - year old copy: it has the very same flaws. Note to Schirmer: as well as this sells, how about some new printing plates?I highly recommend this for any piano student who is at about one year or more.

Came as advertised.

I learned it when I was a kid, but I bought it as a practice song because I wanted to play the piano again. I enjoy playing.

I'll start with a preface: I have been playing piano for four years, I started when I was 18, and aside from six one-unit community college classes, I've never had any formal training. That said, this book is (in my opinion) a little tougher than the first "First Lessons in Bach" book and at the end is still easier than most of the second "First Lessons" Bach book. It fits squarely in the middle, which would be a good run up towards Schumann's Album Für Die Jugend or a book of Bach's inventions.Also it would be useful for an accomplished pianist to run through these as one would Hanon or Czerny, only these are actual songs, which helps to break up the monotony of finger exercises. Not to say Hanon or Czerny aren't important; diversity is simply a good thing to have.I'm a total amateur, and I was looking for something less intense than Bach, less repititious than Hanon, and less insane than Czerny. Burgmüllers Twenty-Five Easy and Progressive Studes fits the bill nicely.

This is a fantastic book for beginner piano players or intermediate/advanced players looking for melodic warm-up pieces. All of the pieces are lovely and totally within the beginner range (LH chords w/ RH melodies, for the most part), though beginners may want to dial the bpm down a bit. I could see this being an excellent sight-reading book for those looking to expand their skills in that area (though it's certainly above the beginner level in that regard). The print is a bit on the small side, hence the 4 stars.Bottom line: If you're a beginner/intermediate pianist and like classical pieces (and don't have terrible eyesight), you should absolutely own this book.

I'm on a roll to get back to playing harpsichord!

I like the songs of this studies

These progressive studies by Burgmuller are full of little techniques that if you pay attention to, will help a lot building those skills. I love the simplicity of the songs and the fact that each time I played them they had something new to offer.

Expensive

My new piano teacher recommended these progressive studies. The music is nice, just the right level of challenging and also melodically pleasing. However, the print quality of this edition is very bad. Most "1"s look like "4"s because of how they are placed smack on the lines, which is frustratingly distracting. There are other errors, too, and the fingering is not the same as it is in other Burgmüller editions.