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Fritz Spindler (1817-1905)

German pianist and composer who wrote more than four hundred published works, most of them for the drawing rooms and music lessons of the nineteenth century, and whose sonatinas are still handed to students learning what a sonata movement is before they meet a real one. He was a fixture of Dresden musical life for half a century. The salon music he made a living from went out of fashion entirely; the teaching pieces never did.

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The easiest Spindler 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.

Song without words A minor · <1 min Spindler: Sonatina No. 1 Op. 157 C major · 2 min Spindler: Sonatina in the Antique Style - Op. 157 No. 4 C major · 2 min

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If you are learning Spindler 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.

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