The Little Beggar, Op. 123 No. 2, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Gretchaninov wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 104 of the piece's 265 notes and adds none, so it is still the real piece: level 2 of 7, where the piece as written is level 3.

Level: 2 of 7
As written: Level 3
Notes: 161 of 265
Key: A minor
Time: 4/4
Length: 20 bars

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The whole easy version161 notes

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The first 8 bars of The Little Beggar, Op. 123 No. 2, easy version, on the grand staff — The first 8 bars of the easy version.

The piece as written, level 3, and all 4 of its versions are on The Little Beggar, Op. 123 No. 2's page.

Score typed for Clefsight from Muzgiz, Moscow, 1959, ed. V. Belov, plate М. 18866 Г (scan on IMSLP), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Alexander Gretchaninov died in 1956. Credits