Classical Piano

[Fed]

I'm very interested in any suggestions you may have for excellent piano composers/pieces. I'm listening to a piano solo of Pachelbel's Canon and I've heard some of Chopin (some amazing pieces), but are there any more obscure artists you would recommend?

 

[trumpetgirl]

I don't think this one is an obscure artist, but I like to listen/play Liszt.

Kim

 

[theinfiniteweird]

Awesome piano music:

Mozart
Beethoven
Chopin
Liszt

As far as ones like Bach, his music was writen for the harpsichord, organ, things like that. Some people do play it on the piano, but it's not piano music. Just FYI.

 

[theinfiniteweird]

Oh wait, obscure. Let me Google it...

Not so obscure, but some I missed:
Mendelssohn
Schumann
Brahms
Debussy

Cool.

 

[sjpianoprincess]

I don't know any obscure artists, but I like playing Beethoven and Chopin.

 

[stonetoflesh]

Debussy and Chopin are probably my favorite composers for piano... Unless we include stuff like:
George Crumb-- Makrokosmos I & II: 24 Fantasy Pieces After the Zodiac, for amplified piano; Makrokosmos III: Music For a Summer Evening, for amplified piano & percussion
John Cage-- Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano
Karlheinz Stockhausen-- Kontakte, for piano & electronics
Steve Reich-- Six Pianos

 

[Diane_Windsor]

How 'bout Rachmaninoff? Van Cliburn's interpretations of his music is top-notch.

 

[Kouzelnik]

Debussy and Chopin are probably my favorite composers for piano... Unless we include stuff like:
George Crumb-- Makrokosmos I & II: 24 Fantasy Pieces After the Zodiac, for amplified piano; Makrokosmos III: Music For a Summer Evening, for amplified piano & percussion
John Cage-- Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano
Karlheinz Stockhausen-- Kontakte, for piano & electronics
Steve Reich-- Six Pianos

Why stop there?

Solo piano works by:

Nancarrow (Nonesuch recordings - all player piano)
Boulez
Schoenberg-Berg-Webern
Cecil Taylor
Ligeti ('specially the player piano stuff on Sony)
Morton Feldman
etc......................

That's all easy listening, though.