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 | | Favorite shorter pieces by the great Viennese master, who was a model for both Mozart and Beethoven, include the popular "Andante with Variations in F Minor" and other charming miniatures-variation sets, airs, capriccios, minuets, the famous German Dances, and a selection of best-loved movements drawn from Haydn's ground-breaking piano sonatas. |
 | | Complex, surprising pieces by a brilliant, underrated Russian 20th-century Romantic whose music, though similar to that of his friend Rachmaninoff, is more cerebral and harmonically adventurous. |
 | | These 34 "fairy tales" for piano highlight the composer's gift for musical storytelling, with their intense polyrhythms, intricate textures, and complex harmonic development. |
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