Free John Field sheet music
4 John Field scores on Artform's shelf, ordered easiest to read first. Every score here is public domain, free to read, print and keep.
Open the sheet music libraryJohn Field (1782-1837)
Irish pianist who invented the nocturne, a full generation before Chopin took the form and made it his own; Chopin knew exactly where it came from and said so. As a boy he was employed by Clementi to demonstrate pianos to customers in a London showroom, which is a strange apprenticeship for a composer and an excellent one for a pianist. He settled in Russia, taught there for decades, and stayed so long that Glinka claimed him as a Russian influence. He drank heavily and died in Moscow.
Start with these
The easiest John Field on the shelf, in order. Nothing here is graded and nobody is ranked: the shelf simply puts the pieces that ask less of your hands before the ones that ask more.
How the reader works
Each score opens as engraved notation you can read from the stand, and it plays: hear the piece first, then slow it down and loop the bar that is not working. There is nothing to install and no account to make. When you want paper, print it.
Every file is MusicXML, so MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale and Dorico open them too.
Where to go next
If you are learning John Field rather than only reading, the scale pages cover fingering in every key, the chord pages spell out every chord, and the symbol dictionary explains any mark on the page you do not recognise.