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Sonatina Album (Schirmer, edited by Louis Köhler, 1893)

The sonatina book most teachers hand out once Clementi's first sonatina is learned: seventeen sonatinas by Kuhlau, Clementi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Dussek, then thirteen rondos and other pieces, edited by Louis Köhler and published by Schirmer in New York in 1893.

The library has 11 of the book's 30 numbers, levels 3 to 5. Not in the library: Nos. 1–3, 13, 15–17, and 19–30.

Listed on their own books' pages: Nos. 7–12 on Clementi's Six Sonatinas, Op. 36.

Pieces

11

Levels

3 to 5

Key signatures

none to 1 sharp

Length

35 to 146 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.

• Sonatina in C, Op. 55 No. 1: I
  Friedrich Kuhlau no sharps or flats, 4/4, 124 bars
  No. 4 of 30; level 3
• Sonatina in C, Op. 55 No. 1: II
  Friedrich Kuhlau no sharps or flats, 3/8, 117 bars
  No. 4 of 30; level 3
• Sonatina in G, Op. 55 No. 2: I
  Friedrich Kuhlau 1 sharp, 3/4, 104 bars
  No. 5 of 30; level 3
• Sonatina in G, Op. 55 No. 2: II
  Friedrich Kuhlau no sharps or flats, 3/4, 35 bars
  No. 5 of 30; level 3
• Sonatina in G, Op. 55 No. 2: III
  Friedrich Kuhlau 1 sharp, 2/4, 130 bars
  No. 5 of 30; level 4
• Sonatina in C, Op. 55 No. 3: I
  Friedrich Kuhlau no sharps or flats, 4/4, 115 bars
  No. 6 of 30; level 3
• Sonatina in C, Op. 55 No. 3: II
  Friedrich Kuhlau no sharps or flats, 2/4, 142 bars
  No. 6 of 30; level 3
• Sonata in C, K. 545: I
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart no sharps or flats, 4/4, 146 bars
  No. 14 of 30; level 5
• Sonata in C, K. 545: II
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1 sharp, 3/4, 106 bars
  No. 14 of 30; level 5
• Sonata in C, K. 545: III
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart no sharps or flats, 2/4, 82 bars
  No. 14 of 30; level 5
• Prelude in C, BWV 846
  Johann Sebastian Bach no sharps or flats, 4/4, 35 bars
  No. 18 of 30; level 3

An order to learn them in

The same pieces from the easiest, by the level fitted to each score; within a level, in the book's order. Teachers skip about in these books, and so can you.

1. Level 3 Prelude in C, BWV 846 · Sonatina in G, Op. 55 No. 2: II · Sonatina in G, Op. 55 No. 2: I · Sonatina in C, Op. 55 No. 3: I · Sonatina in C, Op. 55 No. 1: II · Sonatina in C, Op. 55 No. 1: I · Sonatina in C, Op. 55 No. 3: II
2. Level 4 Sonatina in G, Op. 55 No. 2: III
3. Level 5 Sonata in C, K. 545: III · Sonata in C, K. 545: II · Sonata in C, K. 545: I

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
• Gurlitt's The First Lessons, Op. 117 34 of 34
• Duvernoy's École primaire, Op. 176 16 of 25
• Mozart's first pieces, K. 1a–1f 6 of 6
• Streabbog's Twelve Melodious Studies, Op. 63 12 of 12
• Le Couppey's L'Alphabet, Op. 17 25 of 25
• Burgmüller's 25 Easy Studies, Op. 100 25 of 25
• Anna Magdalena Bach's Notebook (1725) 20 of 20
• Gretchaninov's Glass Beads, Op. 123 12 of 12
• Bartók's For Children (original edition) 20 of 42
• Gretchaninov's Children's Album, Op. 98 15 of 15
• Tchaikovsky's Album for the Young, Op. 39 24 of 24
• Lemoine's Études enfantines, Op. 37 29 of 50
• Clementi's Six Sonatinas, Op. 36 6 of 6
• Czerny's 160 Eight-Measure Exercises, Op. 821 19 of 160
• Czerny's School of Velocity, Op. 299 6 of 40
• Schumann's Album for the Young, Op. 68 21 of 43
• Schirmer's Sonatina Album 11 of 30
• Schumann's Kinderszenen, Op. 15 8 of 13
• Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28 8 of 24