The Virtuoso Pianist (Part I): part 1
by Charles-Louis Hanon (1819-1900) · Romantic · Easy
Versions
| Version | Level | Key | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Easy · Level 2 | 2 of 5 | C major | 0:40 |
The player above plays the first 20 seconds. Learn all 0:40 of The Virtuoso Pianist (Part I): part 1 in the PianoKite app: every version, both hands or one at a time, Wait mode on every bar, play-along at 50, 75 or 100% and per-bar feedback. Get early access.
- Era
- Romantic (1830–1910)
- Mood
- Joyful · bright and lively
- Versions
- 1
About this piece
Charles-Louis Hanon (1819-1900) is the composer of The Virtuoso Pianist (Part I): part 1, a Romantic piece that is upbeat and sunny. There is one arrangement: Easy (level 2 of 5), 0:40 long, in C major. In the app it belongs to the Études collection.
About Charles-Louis Hanon (1819-1900): French piano teacher whose book The Virtuoso Pianist (1873) collects the finger exercises still used by students around the world.
How to play The Virtuoso Pianist (Part I): part 1 on piano
- Learn each hand on its own before putting them together. In the app, choose Left or Right and the other hand plays for you, so you still hear the whole piece.
- Use Wait mode for the first few runs, then play along at 50% speed with the count-in.
- Work in short sections of four to eight bars rather than always starting from the top.
- An étude trains one skill. Find the bars where that pattern is hardest, loop them slowly, and only then play the piece through.
- Short daily sessions beat one long weekly one. Ten focused minutes a day is enough to make steady progress.
In the PianoKite app you can learn it with your own digital piano over Bluetooth or USB, or with any piano through the microphone: the score scrolls past a playhead, the keys light up, and every bar gets a score so you can see what's learned. See how it works. New to the piano? Start with the beginner lessons. Get early access.
License and credits
Typeset by Steve Taylor and Javier Ruiz-Alma for the Mutopia Project. License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Source: Mutopia Project.
The source file may be shared and adapted, also commercially, with credit to the typesetter and adaptations under the same license; the preview on this page is an excerpt of it, under that license.
Text events such as lyrics were removed; the notes are as published. The player on this page plays the first 20 seconds.
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