Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
14 pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach to read and learn at your keyboard, easiest first. Each one comes with easier versions made from the score itself, so you can start below its level and work up to it as written.
- Pieces
- 14
- Levels
- 2 to 5
- Key signatures
- 4 flats to 2 sharps
- Length
- 16 to 96 bars
Level 2
A tune over a simple left hand, mostly in one hand position. Minuets, carols, Ode to Joy, Czerny's first studies.
Level 3
Both hands busy, the hand moves around, a sharp or flat or two. Most of the Notebook minuets, sonatinas, The Entertainer.
Level 4
Real independence between the hands and more accidentals. Bach's inventions and little preludes, Für Elise, Chopin's easier preludes.
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Little Prelude in C, BWV 924
no sharps or flats, 4/4, 18 bars -
Invention No. 15 in B minor, BWV 786
2 sharps, 4/4, 22 bars -
Invention No. 2 in C minor, BWV 773
3 flats, 4/4, 27 bars -
Little Prelude in C, BWV 933
no sharps or flats, 4/4, 32 bars -
Minuet in G minor, BWV 842
2 flats, 3/4, 32 bars -
Invention No. 8 in F, BWV 779
1 flat, 3/4, 34 bars -
Prelude in C, BWV 846
no sharps or flats, 4/4, 35 bars -
Little Prelude in D minor, BWV 935
1 flat, 3/8, 96 bars
Level 5
The edge of early intermediate: dense textures, fast passages and far keys. The Moonlight Sonata, Maple Leaf Rag, Solfeggietto.
More composers
In the library with two or more pieces.
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 2
- Johann Sebastian Bach 14
- Ludwig van Beethoven 8
- Friedrich Burgmüller 2
- Frédéric Chopin 11
- Carl Czerny 12
- Claude Debussy 3
- George Frideric Handel 5
- Joseph Haydn 4
- James Hook 2
- Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre 2
- Scott Joplin 3
- Henry Lemoine 6
- Felix Mendelssohn 2
- Leopold Mozart 2
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 18
- Christian Petzold 2
- Jean-Philippe Rameau 2
- Erik Satie 3
- Domenico Scarlatti 3
- Franz Schubert 4
- Alexander Scriabin 2
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 3
- Georg Philipp Telemann 2
- Antonio Vivaldi 2
- Traditional 8