The three-volume sheet music collection ‘Schott Music Mini Maestro 2’ contains very easy to moderately difficult short piano pieces spanning five centuries, arranged chronologically from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods through to Modern, Jazz, Pop and Minimal Music. At the end of each volume, there are three bonus pieces for four hands. All the pieces are easy to learn and offer a varied repertoire that is an ideal complement to any piano method, suitable for concerts, lessons, exams and competitions.
Schott Music Mini Maestro 2 contains pieces with an extended range of two octaves and three-to four-part chordal playing with inversions. Further features include pedal technique, basic ornamentation, simple polyphony, differentiation between melody and accompaniment, and pieces in major and minor keys with up to two sharps or flats.
Contents:
- John Blow (1649–1708): Air
- Johann Krieger (1651–1735): Minuet in A minor
- Christian Petzold (1677–1733): Minuet in G major, BWV Anh. 114, Minuet in g minor, BWV Anh. 115
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): Aria in D minor, BWV 515, Prelude in C major, BWV 939
- Georg Friedrich Handel (1685–1759): Gavotte in C major, Passepied in C major, HWV 559
- Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): German Dance in D major, Hob. IX:22/2, Minuet in F major, Hob. IX:8/12
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791): Minuet in F major, K. 2, Allegro in B flat major, K. 3
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827): German Dance in C major, WoO 8/1, Ecossaise in G major, WoO 23
- Anton Diabelli (1781–1858): Tempo di Menuetto, Op. 125/8, Vivace, Op. 125/7
- Friedrich Kuhlau (1786–1832): Two Scottish Dances No. 2, No. 5
- Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826): Allemande, Op. 4/2
- Maria Szymanowska (1789–1831): Mazurka
- Ignaz Moscheles (1794–1870): Scherzo, Op. 55/3
- Robert Schumann (1810–1856): Little Piece, Op. 68/5
- Félix Le Couppey (1811–1887): Arabic Melody
- Cornelius Gurlitt (1820–1901): Piano Piece, Op. 179/22, Gavotte, Op. 210/9
- Carl Reinecke (1824–1910): Song, Serenade 1, Op. 183
- Eduard Horák (1838–1893): Scherzino
- Oskar Bolck (1839–1888): Sonatina in C major, Op. 30/4, Allegro, Andante, Rondino: Vivace
- Frederick Scotson Clark (1840–1883): Tarantella
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893): The Sick Doll, Op. 39/6
- Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864–1956): A Little Dance, Op. 98/10, After the Ball, Op. 98/13
- Samuil Maikapar (1867–1938): Waltz, Op. 28/5
- Béla Bartók (1881–1945): Play, Melancholy, Waltz
- Carl Orff (1895–1982): Piano Exercise No. 20
- John Kember (b. 1935): Simply Blue
- Loris Tjeknavorian (b. 1937): Cheerful Interlude
- George Nevada (1939–2014): When Paris Dreams
- Jürgen Moser (b. 1949): Feelin’ Groovy
- Rainer Mohrs (b. 1953): A Song of Hope
- Hans-Günter Heumann (b. 1955): Cool Jazz Cats, Magic Piano, Rainbow Fairy, Modern Sonatina: 1 À la Clementi, 2 Pop Ballad, 3 Boogie-Woogie
- Three bonus pieces for four hands:
- Anton Diabelli (1781–1858): Scherzo, Op. 149/6
- Franz Schubert (1797–1828): Ländler, D 366/5
- Mike Schoenmehl (b. 1957): Fips in the Park