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Beyer: Vorschule im Klavierspiel, Op. 101

Ferdinand Beyer's book for young beginners (1850), used as a first piano method ever since: short pieces that start with five fingers in the treble clef and add the bass clef, eighth notes and new keys one step at a time.

The library has Nos. 38 and 50–62, level 2.

Pieces

14

Level

2

Key signatures

none

Length

8 to 48 bars

In the book's order

Each with its number and level, and easier versions made from the score itself, so you can start below a piece's level and work up to it as written.

• Study, Op. 101 No. 38
  no sharps or flats, 4/4, 24 bars
  No. 38; level 2
• Study in C, Op. 101 No. 50
  no sharps or flats, 3/4, 20 bars
  No. 50; level 2
• Study in C, Op. 101 No. 51
  no sharps or flats, 4/4, 20 bars
  No. 51; level 2
• Study in C, Op. 101 No. 52
  no sharps or flats, 6/8, 24 bars
  No. 52; level 2
• Study in C, Op. 101 No. 53
  no sharps or flats, 2/4, 8 bars
  No. 53; level 2
• Study in C, Op. 101 No. 54
  no sharps or flats, 2/4, 8 bars
  No. 54; level 2
• Study in C, Op. 101 No. 55
  no sharps or flats, 4/4, 32 bars
  No. 55; level 2
• Study in C, Op. 101 No. 56
  no sharps or flats, 3/4, 16 bars
  No. 56; level 2
• Study in C, Op. 101 No. 57
  no sharps or flats, 3/4, 24 bars
  No. 57; level 2
• Evening Song in C, Op. 101 No. 58
  no sharps or flats, 4/4, 13 bars
  No. 58; level 2
• Study in C, Op. 101 No. 59
  no sharps or flats, 3/8, 32 bars
  No. 59; level 2
• Study in A minor, Op. 101 No. 60
  no sharps or flats, 3/4, 24 bars
  No. 60; level 2
• Study in C, Op. 101 No. 61
  no sharps or flats, 4/4, 16 bars
  No. 61; level 2
• Study in C, Op. 101 No. 62
  no sharps or flats, 3/4, 48 bars
  No. 62; level 2

An order to learn them in

All 14 are at level 2, so the book's own order is a good one to learn them in.

Other teaching books

Every book five or more library pieces are from.

• Köhler's Very Easiest Exercise Pieces, Op. 190 24
• Beyer's Vorschule im Klavierspiel, Op. 101 14
• Duvernoy's École primaire, Op. 176 16 of 25
• Mozart's first pieces, K. 1a–1f 6 of 6
• Burgmüller's 25 Easy Studies, Op. 100 25 of 25
• Le Couppey's L'Alphabet, Op. 17 25 of 25
• Anna Magdalena Bach's Notebook (1725) 20 of 20
• Lemoine's Études enfantines, Op. 37 29 of 50
• Czerny's 160 Eight-Measure Exercises, Op. 821 19 of 160
• Czerny's School of Velocity, Op. 299 6 of 40
• Clementi's Six Sonatinas, Op. 36 6 of 6
• Schumann's Album for the Young, Op. 68 21 of 43
• Schumann's Kinderszenen, Op. 15 7 of 13
• Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28 8 of 24