Piano Pieces by Era
Four hundred years of keyboard music, grouped by period and ranked by difficulty. Also browse by level, by mood, or by composer.
- Baroquec. 1600–1750Counterpoint, dance suites, and ornament — Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, Rameau. Baroque keyboard music trains finger independence like nothing else.
- Classicalc. 1750–1820Clarity, balance, and singing lines — Mozart, Haydn, Clementi, early Beethoven. The sonatas and sonatinas every pianist grows up on.
- Romanticc. 1820–1900The piano's golden century — Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms. Big emotion, singing melody, and virtuosity as poetry.
- Impressionistc. 1890–1925Color over line — Debussy, Ravel, Satie. Whole-tone washes, pedal haze, and some of the most-loved piano music ever written.
- Modernc. 1900–presentEverything after the rules broke — Bartók, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, minimalism and film-adjacent writing. Rhythm takes the wheel.