Suggested Chamber Pieces

Pieces for 2 Violins (or flutes) and Piano:

Level I:

  1. La Donna e Mobile from Rigoletto (easy piano part)
  2. Beethoven’s Minuet in G

Level II:

  1. Haydn’s Austrian Hymn, etc.
  2. Dvorak’s Humoreske (Henry Cramer's version in original key of G major with easier piano part)
  3. Dvorak's Humoresque for Violin, Clarinet or Flute, and Piano (in D major as Suzuki version); please use Suzuki Violin Book 3, Number 4, for violin and piano parts. Click to download the MS Word file for clarinet (in A or Bb) or for flute.

Level III:

  1. Strauss’s Blue Danube Waltz
  2. Grieg’s Norwegian Dance

 

Others:

  1. Corelli’s Duet in A Major (violins or flutes, no piano part, Level IV)
  2. Clodomir’s Duet #1 (trumpets or cornets, no piano part, Level II)
  3. The Cat from Prokofiev’s "Peter and the Wolf" (clarinet, violin, and piano, Level III)
  4. The Bird from Prokofiev’s "Peter and the Wolf" (flute, violin, and piano, Level IV for flute)

Notes:

  1. The levels do not reflect the difficulty of the piano part.
  2. Some pieces can be transposed for clarinets.
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