Before ‘National Piano Month’ (September) slips away entirely, here’s a little quiz with some familiar works for the instrument. Give a listen and see how many of these twenty mashed-up piano pieces you can identify:
A Mashed Up Piano Quiz…
(Click and drag over the space below to see the selections.)
- Satie: Gymnopedie #1
- Bach: Goldberg Variations (Aria)
- Stravinsky: Petrushka, Scene 1
- Schubert: “Wanderer” Fantasy
- Bach: Prelude #1 in C (from Well-Tempered Clavier, book 1)
- Mozart: Sonata #16
- Beethoven: Sonata #8 in c minor, “Pathetique”
- Brahms: Intermezzo
- Debussy: Golliwog’s Cakewalk (from Children’s Corner)
- Schubert: Impromptu #2 in E-flat
- Chopin: Nocturne, Op. 9, no. 2
- Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag
- Chopin: “Heroic” Polonaise, Op. 53
- Brahms: Waltz in A-flat, Op. 39, no. 15
- Liszt: Liebestraum (“Dream of Love”)
- Debussy: Clair de Lune
- Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody #2
- Beethoven: “Moonlight” Sonata
- Rachmaninoff: Prelude in c-sharp minor
- Gershwin: Prelude #2
