Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)

4 pieces by Joseph Haydn 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: 4
Levels: 2 to 4
Key signatures: none to 3 sharps
Length: 24 to 254 bars

Level 2

A tune over a simple left hand, mostly in one hand position. Minuets, carols, Ode to Joy, Czerny's first studies.

Theme from the Surprise Symphony
no sharps or flats, 4/4, 24 bars

Level 3

Both hands busy, the hand moves around, a sharp or flat or two. Most of the Notebook minuets, sonatinas, The Entertainer.

Tedesca
1 sharp, 3/4, 32 bars
Minuet in A, Hob. IX:8 No. 6
3 sharps, 3/4, 33 bars

Level 4

Real independence between the hands and more accidentals. Bach's inventions and little preludes, Für Elise, Chopin's easier preludes.

Sonata in E minor, Hob. XVI:34: I
1 sharp, 6/8, 254 bars

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