Just a heads up for what I’m doing with these posts. I assume that if you want to play piano music, then you are probably also interested in some the history of piano music and some of the top composers. This isn’t meant to be a complete history course, but rather just quick info about some of my favorites. If you’re really interested, I’d still rather you learn to play piano now, and learn about piano composers later.

Master Piano Player and Composer- MozartI’ve decided to start with Mozart because he probably the most famous composer of piano music. Mozart’s music is very catchy, and usually very light and fun to play and listen to. It’s usually written for a pretty quick tempo, but it’s also pretty simple, so not to be extremely difficult for the beginner piano player.

Even those of you just learning to play piano probably know Mozart’s story. Mozart was the most prodigious composer, probably the most prodigious person, to ever live. He wrote his first compositions at the age of 3, and was playing for royalty at 6. By 17 he was the court composer in Salzberg. He was dismissed from that position, and moved to Vienna, where he spent the rest of his life and composed his most famous operas, concertos, and symphonies. Although he never had trouble finding work, Mozart was terrible with money, and died young and poor. He left his most famous work, a Requiem Mass, unfinished.