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Piano pieces in C minor

8 pieces in C minor to read and learn at your keyboard, levels 3 to 5, easiest first. Its key signature is 3 flats: B♭, E♭, and A♭. Each piece comes with easier versions made from the score itself.

C minor on the circle of fifths, with its neighbours, and its scale with fingering on the scales chart. E♭ major has the same signature, 3 flats, with 11 pieces of its own.

Pieces

8

Levels

3 to 5

Key signatures

3 flats

Length

13 to 204 bars

Level 3

Both hands busy, the hand moves around, a sharp or flat or two.

• Minuet in C minor, BWV Anh. 121
  Anonymous (Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach) 3 flats, 3/4, 48 bars

Level 4

Real independence between the hands and more accidentals.

• Invention No. 2 in C minor, BWV 773
  Johann Sebastian Bach 3 flats, 4/4, 27 bars
• Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 43
  Henry Lemoine 3 flats, 2/4, 36 bars
• Funeral March in C minor, Op. 72
  Frédéric Chopin 3 flats, 4/4, 76 bars

Level 5

The edge of early intermediate: dense textures, fast passages and far keys.

• Prelude in C minor, Op. 28 No. 20
  Frédéric Chopin 3 flats, 4/4, 13 bars
• Solfeggietto in C minor
  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 3 flats, 4/4, 35 bars
• Mazurka in C minor, Op. 30 No. 1
  Frédéric Chopin 3 flats, 3/4, 54 bars
• Impromptu in C minor, Op. 90 No. 1
  Franz Schubert 3 flats, 4/4, 204 bars

A piece is listed here when its title names the key, its score marks it, or its last bass note is the key note. 3 more library pieces with 3 flats end somewhere else, so they aren't on a key page; their own pages give the signature.

Other keys

Every key three or more library pieces are in.

• C major 106
• G major 61
• D major 39
• A major 13
• E major 8
• F major 49
• B♭ major 21
• E♭ major 11
• A♭ major 5
• D♭ major 3
• A minor 36
• E minor 12
• B minor 5
• C♯ minor 4
• D minor 9
• G minor 15
• C minor 8
• F minor 4