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Description of  Book of The Greatest Solo Piano Works: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Mussorgsky, Debussy, Albeniz, Ravel, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Copland, and more

Book of The Greatest Solo Piano Works is a guide through more than 200 years of keyboard music, and in 24 lectures, it will give you the knowledge and insight to enjoy and appreciate the stunningly diverse literature of piano music. In addition to the study of the music, the course digs deeply into the artistic and social environments that shaped the music itself, shedding light on what inspired these great works and how they were created. Beginning with the towering figures of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, the course moves on to the piano music of such great 19th-century masters as Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, and Rachmaninoff and finally to visionary modernists including Scriabin, Debussy, Copland, and Prokofiev. While all of the works featured in this course are worthy of being called among the "greatest," there are-admittedly-many other "greatest solo works for the piano" that could have been addressed in this course. The selections were governed by three basic ground rules.