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Easy classical pieces for beginners

These are the classical pieces in Octotune graded 2 to 4 of 8: real music for the stage after your first songs, once you can read a little in both clefs. There are minuets and marches from the Anna Magdalena Notebook, Satie's three Gymnopédies, pieces from Schumann's Album for the Young, the first of Burgmüller's studies and Clementi's first sonatina.

Nearly all of them come in three levels, so you can start with the melody alone, add a simple bass, then play the whole piece. On the path for grown-ups, the first of them arrive in Units 8 to 10, each once you know all its notes. Each page gives its grade, key and time, and its opening measure.

Easiest first

  1. Ellen's SongStarter pieces, grade 2 · 2 flats (B♭, E♭) · 4/4
  2. In MayStarter pieces, grade 2 · no sharps or flats · 3/4
  3. Minuet in F major, K. 2Starter pieces, grade 2 · F major · 3/4
  4. A Little Piece (Album for the Young), Op. 68 No. 5Beginner, grade 3 · no sharps or flats · 4/4
  5. Chorale (Album for the Young), Op. 68 No. 4Beginner, grade 3 · 1 sharp (F♯) · 4/4
  6. Humming Song (Album for the Young), Op. 68 No. 3Beginner, grade 3 · no sharps or flats · 4/4
  7. Little Toy LostBeginner, grade 3 · no sharps or flats · 4/4
  8. Melody (Album for the Young), Op. 68 No. 1Beginner, grade 3 · no sharps or flats · 4/4
  9. Minuet in A minor, BWV Anh. 120Beginner, grade 3 · no sharps or flats · 3/4
  10. Minuet in F major, BWV Anh. 113Beginner, grade 3 · 1 flat (B♭) · 3/4
  11. Minuet in G major, BWV Anh. 116Beginner, grade 3 · 1 sharp (F♯) · 3/4
  12. Morning Prayer (Album for the Young), Op. 39 No. 1Beginner, grade 3 · 1 sharp (F♯) · 3/4
  13. Poor Orphan Child (Album for the Young), Op. 68 No. 6Beginner, grade 3 · no sharps or flats · 2/4
  14. Folk Song (Album for the Young), Op. 68 No. 9Beginner, grade 4 · 1 flat (B♭) · 4/4
  15. Gymnopédie No. 1Beginner, grade 4 · D major · 3/4
  16. Gymnopédie No. 2Beginner, grade 4 · no sharps or flats · 3/4
  17. Gymnopédie No. 3Beginner, grade 4 · no sharps or flats · 3/4
  18. La Candeur, Op. 100 No. 1Beginner, grade 4 · C major · 4/4
  19. Little Prelude in C, BWV 924Beginner, grade 4 · no sharps or flats · 4/4
  20. March in E-flat major, BWV Anh. 127Beginner, grade 4 · 3 flats (B♭, E♭, A♭) · 2/2
  21. March of the Wooden Soldiers (Album for the Young), Op. 39 No. 5Beginner, grade 4 · 2 sharps (F♯, C♯) · 2/4
  22. Menuet IBeginner, grade 4 · 1 flat (B♭) · 3/8
  23. Minuet in G minor, BWV Anh. 115Beginner, grade 4 · 2 flats (B♭, E♭) · 3/4
  24. Of Foreign Lands and Peoples (Kinderszenen), Op. 15 No. 1Beginner, grade 4 · 1 sharp (F♯) · 2/4
  25. Old French Song (Album for the Young), Op. 39 No. 16Beginner, grade 4 · 2 flats (B♭, E♭) · 2/4
  26. Prelude (Erato)Beginner, grade 4 · 1 sharp (F♯) · 4/4
  27. Prelude in C major, BWV 846Beginner, grade 4 · C major · 4/4
  28. Progrès, Op. 100 No. 6Beginner, grade 4 · no sharps or flats · 4/4
  29. RondoBeginner, grade 4 · no sharps or flats · 3/4
  30. Rondo, Op. 42 No. 1Beginner, grade 4 · no sharps or flats · 2/4
  31. Soldiers' March (Album for the Young), Op. 68 No. 2Beginner, grade 4 · 1 sharp (F♯) · 2/4
  32. Sonata in A, K. 331: I. ThemeBeginner, grade 4 · 3 sharps (F♯, C♯, G♯) · 6/8
  33. Sonata in E-flat, Hob. XVI:28: II. MenuettoBeginner, grade 4 · 3 flats (B♭, E♭, A♭) · 3/4
  34. Sonata in G major: third movementBeginner, grade 4 · 1 sharp (F♯) · 2/4
  35. Sonatina in B-flat, HWV 585Beginner, grade 4 · 2 flats (B♭, E♭) · 4/4
  36. Sonatina in C, Op. 36 No. 1: I. AllegroBeginner, grade 4 · C major · 2/2
  37. Sonatina in C, Op. 36 No. 1: II. AndanteBeginner, grade 4 · 1 flat (B♭) · 3/4
  38. Sonatina in C, Op. 36 No. 1: III. VivaceBeginner, grade 4 · no sharps or flats · 3/8
  39. Tendre Fleur, Op. 100 No. 10Beginner, grade 4 · 2 sharps (F♯, C♯) · 4/4
  40. The Blue Danube (main theme), Op. 314Beginner, grade 4 · no sharps or flats · 3/4
  41. The Happy Farmer, Op. 68 No. 10Beginner, grade 4 · F major · 4/4
  42. TräumereiBeginner, grade 4 · F major · 4/4

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