Description: Each of the three composers represented in this new collection was a prime mover in 20th-century music. Stravinsky shaped his early work by exploring both the primitivism of his native Russia and the latest fads in popular dance, reflected here in Three Movements from Petrushka (Russian Dance, At Petrushka's, and Holy Week), Rag Time, Piano-Rag-Music, and The Five Fingers: 8 Very Easy Melodies on 5 Notes. A decade before the formulation of his seminal "composition with 12 tones, " Schoenberg was already experimenting with the dissolution of tonality, as expressed in the early piano works included here: Chamber Symphony, Op. 9, a composition for fifteen solo instruments, transcribed for piano; Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11; and Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19. Hindemith followed his own path, systematically reflecting the formal shapes in an extended harmonic language still based in tonality, as in his 1922 Suite for Piano, Op. 26. This original compilation is certain to prove immensely popular with pianists at intermediate and advanced levels.

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