Are you ready to learn some easy but beautiful piano pieces that sound impressive? Start from some we have picked here.
What are most beautiful and most impressive piano compositions? Well, it is of course matter of opinion. But there are those famous songs and compositions that most people would agree on. Probably most of those would not be suitable for the very beginners in piano playing, if you are one of those, better first learn some of the Easiest Popular Piano Songs for Beginners with Letters. But, in order to sound impressive, it has to be a little bit harder than that.
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Piano is more than often first choice of musical instrument to learn. It is also usually taught as a second instrument in music schools. That is because you can adapt almost any piece of music for piano, and it will still sound full because of the polyphony you can achieve by playing it. It is also visually easy to memorize a music piece on the piano. That makes a tough choice of choosing most impressive and beautiful but easy piano pieces to play.
There are a bunch of websites recommending piano sheet music, like Easy Sheet Music, Free Sheet Piano Music, or KevinHabits. Recommendations for easy but beautiful piano pieces to learn can also be found on specialized websites for piano music and piano players, like Piano Street or Piano Forum. Also there are some nice advice on Take Lessons for nice sounding piano pieces for beginners.
About piano pieces that sound impressive, you can never go wrong with the classical music and famous composers like Mozart or Bach, as they are also great for practicing piano, so no wonder they also found their place on our list here. If you like something, well, with enough commitment anything is possible, but let’s start first with the easy but beautiful piano pieces that sound impressive.
10. Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K 331 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This is one of the easier Mozart’s sonatas, but its performance can last as long as 20 minutes! It consists of three parts, or movements: Andante grazioso (theme and variations), Menuetto (menuetto and trio) and the last movement and probably the most famous part – Rondo alla Turca or the Turkish March. We have picked the first movement, the Andante grazioso for this list, since it is the easiest one and still sounds amazing.
9. The Entertainer by Scott Joplin
This piece is probably most known from the movie the Sting form 1973, but it was composed some 70 years earlier. It is a classic ragtime music piece and Scott Joplin was one of the most famous ragtime composers. This composition is on the number 10 on the list of the best Songs of the (20th) Century compiled by Recording Industry Association of America.
8. Prelude, No. 20, Op. 28 in C minor by Fryderyk Chopin
Let’s jump now to something more serious regarding the emotional impression of the composition. Chopin was a famous Polish composer of Romanticism, famous for his grave melodies and nocturne music. This very composition was used by other composers, like Rachmaninoff or Busoni for their Variations on a Theme of Chopin.
7. Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven
We are continuing our list of easy but beautiful piano pieces that sound impressive with Moonlight Sonata that is a popular name for Piano Sonata no. 14 in C♯ Minor “Quasi una fantasia”. And probably even less known fact is that Beethoven wrote this piece dedicating it to his student Giulietta Guicciardi, by whom he was enchanted, her being his great inspiration.
6. Waltz no. 19 op. posth. in A minor by Fryderyk Chopin
Yet another piano piece by Chopin. This time it is a walz, another kind of music of which Chopin left an impressive and famous legacy. Although not as famous as Minute Waltz, it is much easier to play but nevertheless beautiful, and it was published posthumously.
5. Adagio in G Minor
This is certainly one of the easy but beautiful piano pieces that sound impressive, but why is there no composer in the title, wasn’t it composed by Tomaso Albinoni? The answer is still unclear, since Albioni’s work was scratched, and then collected and adapted by Remo Giazotto who claimed rights for this composition. Nevertheless, although it was not composed for piano, but for violin, strings, and organ, there is a transcription of this composition for piano, and playing it on the piano is easy and will melt anyone’s soul.
4. Für Elise by Ludwig van Beethoven
This is probably best-known piano piece ever, so there’s no need for much introduction. It is learned throughout the world in music schools, and yet it never ceases to amaze people with its beauty.
3. Clair de lune by Claude Debussy
This is one famous piece of a suite composed by Debussy. This piece represents the third movement of Suite bergamasque. Clair de lune literally means moonlight, so here is the real moonlight piano piece for you.
2. Prelude 1 in C Minor by J.S. Bach
Although it is repetitive, simple and rather short, this is an astonishing piece of piano music, written by music genius Bach. He is famous for many other wonderful keyboard compositions, but this one is really easy to learn and sounds quite impressive.
1. Ave Maria by Franz Schubert
Although originally named Ellens dritter Gesang (Ellen’s third Song), the number one on our list of easy but beautiful piano pieces that sound impressive became popular under the name Ave Maria. There were many uses of this piece, for example, Franz Liszt’s adaptations. You can also hear it in the last part of Disney’s famous film Fantasia.
