Best of Easy Piano Classics 2 (eBook)

Hans-Günter Heumann (*1955) first studied at the Hanover Musikhochschule (piano with Hans Priegnitz and Konrad Meister, composition with Einar Steen-Noekleberg, as well as music education and musicology) and then later studied composition in New York and New Orleans. As a piano teacher and composer, he has primarily focused on the publication of educational piano literature. His principal concern was to teach music in a comprehensible way and make it accessible to a large audience. He has composed and arranged piano music in all musical genres for beginners through to advanced musicians; developed piano methods for students of all ages; and published books and sheet music editions which serve to introduce certain composers and their works using text and pictures. The large number of internationally successful publications from Schott Music reflects the approval and popularity of his work. Drawing from his many years teaching children, young people and adults, in 1995-96 he wrote two of the most important German piano methods which were extremely well received by adult re-learners, piano teachers and pupils alike. His Classical Piano Method as well as the multi-media piano method for children, Piano Junior, have become established publications in the English-speaking market. His best-selling German-language edition Klavierspielen – mein schönstes Hobby is also used with great success in French piano lessons under the title À vous de jouer! PIANO. His Piano Kids method and the German version of Piano Junior are also very popular in German-language lessons. In addition to his educational piano literature, the 'Heumann programme' Easy Piano Music includes very easy arrangements of jazz, rock, pop, and folk music, as well as 'composer themed editions' with easy arrangements and original works of easy to medium difficulty. They are suitable for young and adult beginners as well as for advanced players and music lovers. These include, for example, the Get to Know Composers and Get to Know Classical Masterpieces series. Containing background information and details about the composers' lives and a list of their most important works, including contemporary colour illustrations, they provide easy access to the respective composer and whet the musician's appetite to expand their piano playing repertoire. The volume Piano Classics - The most beautiful piano pieces from Bach to Satie - contains a special selection of works for lovers of piano music. In 2011 he published Live Your Dream, a book with his own compositions which were inspired by spiritual aphorisms. He also composed pop melodies for beginner's lessons which are included in editions like Fantasy Piano, Mystery Piano or Piano Playground. Hans-Günter Heumann now works as a freelance composer and author and lives in South Germany.

Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Marche de triomphe - Johann Pachelbel: Canon - Henry Purcell: Rondeau - Jeremiah Clarke: Trumpet Tune - Antonio Vivaldi: The Winter - Johann Sebastian Bach: Bourrée - Johann Sebastian Bach: Aria - George Frideric Handel: Lascia ch'io pianga - Joseph Haydn: Piano Concerto in D major - Luigi Boccherini: Minuet - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Alla turca - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto in G major - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Little Night Music - Ludwig van Beethoven: Turkish March - Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Ludwig van Beethoven: Rage Over a Lost Penny - Niccolò Paganini: Caprice No. 24 - Carl Maria von Weber: Invitation to the Dance - Gioacchino Rossini: William Tell - Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 7 "Unfinished" - Franz Schubert: The Trout - Franz Liszt: Dream of Love No. 3 - Giuseppe Verdi: La donna è mobile - Giuseppe Verdi: Libiamo ne' lieti calici - Charles Gounod: Ave Maria - Jacques Offenbach: Cancan - Bedrich Smetana: The Moldau - Johann Strauss (son): The Beautiful Blue Danube - Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5 - Alexander Borodin: Polovtsian Dance - Camille Saint-Saëns: The Elephant - Léo Delibes: Valse lente - Georges Bizet: The Toreador Song - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Capriccio italien - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake - Emmanuel Chabrier: España - Antonín Dvořák: Symphony 'From the New World' - Edvard Grieg: Morning Mood - Pablo de Sarasate: Malagueña - Edward Elgar: Salut d'amour - Edward Elgar: Nimrod - Claude Debussy: Clair de lune - Richard Strauss: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Julius Fucik: Einzug der Gladiatoren - Gustav Holst: Jupiter - Maurice Ravel: Boléro - Carl Orff: O Fortuna - George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue