Piano Initial Grade Materials | Pieces

Preliminary Level / Initial Grade Piano - Pieces


Piano repertoire, method books, pieces, anthologies etc for beginners and explorers of the preliminary grade. Or, as of 2021, the initial grade / piano exam.


Visit the ABRSM website to find official information on the piano initial grade exam.


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Piano Methods and Anthologies


📚 Carol Barratt Chester's Piano Starters: Volume 1

📚 Carol Barratt Chester's Easiest First Solos

📚 Piano Time Pieces 1

📚 Piano Time Going Places

📚 Prehistoric Piano Time

📚 David Blackwell Piano Star: Five-Finger Tunes (ABRSM Exam Pieces)

📚 David Blackwell Piano Star, Book 1: 24 Pieces for Young Pianists Up to Prep Test Level (ABRSM Exam Pieces)

📚 David Blackwell Piano Star, Book 2: 24 Pieces for Young Pianists Up to Prep Test Level (ABRSM Exam Pieces)

📚 The Joy of First Classics Book 1

📚 The Joy of First Classics Book 2

📚 The Joy of Boogie and Blues: Interesting Piano Solos in the Easy-to-Medium Grades

📚 Classics To Moderns 1

📚 More Classics To Moderns 1

📚 New Classics To Moderns 1

📚 Bonjour, Piano! Elementary Level: 16 Pieces by French Composers in Progressive Order 

📚 Beatrice Quoniam Pianissimo

📚 Beatrice Quoniam Pianissimo 2

📚 Beatrice Quoniam Mezzo forte

📚 Beatrice Quoniam Piu forte

📚 Beatrice Quoniam Poco forte

📚 Fritz Emonts - De Bartók à Stravinsky: Musique moderne facile pour piano

📚 Catherine Rollin Pathways to Artistry - Masterworks, Book 1

📚 Catherine Rollin Pathways to Artistry - Repertoire, Book 1

📚 Monika Twelsiek Mein Erstes Konzert / My First Concert - 57 Easy Concert Pieces from 5 Centuries

📚 Festival Gems Book 1 - 10 Outstanding NFMC Elementary/Late Elementary Solos Piano Recital Showcase (Hal Leonard Student Piano Library)

📚 Helen Marlais - The Festival Collection Preparatory (Succeeding With the Masters & the Festival Collection)

📚 Helen Marlais - The Festival Collection Book 1 (Succeeding With the Masters & the Festival Collection)

📚 Mosaic, Volume 1 - 26 easy educational works for solo piano

📚 Piano Piccolo: 111 Little Original Classical Piano Pieces Very Easy / 111 klassische Originall-Klavierstucke sehr leicht

📚 Katherine Fisher - Piano Safari: Pattern Pieces 1

📚 Sequential Disney Piano Songs 24 Easy Favorites: Carefully Selected and Arranged in Order of Difficulty

📚 Making the Grade - Preparatory Grade

📚 Piano Progress Book 1 (Faber Edition: The Waterman / Harewood Piano)

📚 Trinity College London - Raise the Bar Piano Book 1 (Initial to Grade 2)

📚 Louis Köhler - Practical Piano Method Op. 300

📚 Hans-Günter Heumann Piano Kids in Concert: Vorspielstücke, die Spaß machen (Klavier)



Composers - B


📚 Bela Bartok - The First Term at the Piano


Composers - C


📚 Walter Carroll - Scenes At A Farm

📚 Walter Carroll - The Countryside

📚 Walter Carroll - Tunes from Nature

📚 Juan Cabeza - Piano Safari Diversions Book 1


Composers - D


📚 Dunhill - First Year Pieces / Swinstead - Work and Play


Composers - E


📚 Ludovico Einaudi: Graded Pieces For Piano - Preparatory To Grade 2


Composers - G


📚 Gillock William Accent on Solos Complete Early to Later Elementary

📚 Gillock William A Young Pianist's First Big Note Solos: Early to Mid-Elementary Level

📚 Gillock William Accent on Gillock: Complete

📚 Alexander Goedicke Sixty Easy Piano Pieces for beginners Op.36

📚 Gurlitt, Cornelius - First Lessons, Op. 117


Composers - H




Composers - K




Composers - L




Composers - M


📚 Martha Mier The Best of Martha Mier, Book 1: A Special Collection of 7 Early Elementary to Elementary Favorite Piano Solos

📚 Martha Mier Musical Impressions, Bk 1: 11 Solos in a Variety of Styles for Early Elementary to Elementary Pianists


Composers - P




Composers - R




Composers - S


📚 Dunhill - First Year Pieces / Swinstead - Work and Play




Composers - T






Composers - W





Piano Initial Grade / Exam Materials





Practice Utensils





Or Download Preliminary Piano Repertoire


👉 Bartok Mikrokosmos, Sz.10


👉 Bartok First Term at the Piano


👉 Berens, Hermann 50 Piano Pieces for First Beginners, Op.70


👉 Diabelli, Anton Die ersten 12 Lectionen am Pianoforte, Op.125


👉 Dunhill Thomas First Year Pieces


👉 Duvernoy, Jean-Baptiste Le guide du lecteur, Op.281


👉 Gedicke 60 Easy Piano Pieces Op. 36


👉 Gurlitt Die ersten Schritte des jungen Klavierspielers, Op.82 (1877)


👉 Gurlitt, Cornelius Das kleine Konzert, Op. 227


👉 Le Couppey, Felix A. B. C. Méthode pour les commençants


👉 Lemoine, Henry Méthode théorique et pratique pour le piano


👉 Kunz, Konrad Max 200 Short Two-Part Canons, Op.14


👉 Müller, August Eberhard Instructive Pieces for Piano


👉 Schytte School of Modern Piano Playing Op. 174


👉 Türk, Daniel Gottlob 120 Handstücke für angehende Klavierspieler


👉 Wohlfahrt, Heinrich Kinder-Klavierschule




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