The World's Best Music
Works in this collection
- Mazurka des Traineaux by Joseph Ascher
- Les Sylphes, Impromptu Valse by G. Bachmann
- Variations for the Pianoforte Op. 82 by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- Death Song by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- Andante, from the Kreutzer Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven
- The Angel's Serenade by G. Braga
- Nocturne by Louis Brassin
- Danse Capriccioso, Op. 104 by Howard Cadmus
- The Flatterer (La Lisonjera) by Cecile Chaminade
- Pierette, Air de Ballet by Cecile Chaminade
- Nocturne in G major Op. 37 No. 2 by Frederic Chopin
- Love's Dream After the Ball by Alphonse Czibulka
- Intermezzo from Naila by Leo Delibes
- Nocturne in Bb by John Field
- Chinese Serenade by H. Fliege
- La Cinquantain (Air in Anient Style) by Gabriel-Marie
- La Czarine (Mazurka Russe) by Louis Ganne
- Ricordati (Nocturne) by Louis Moreau Gottschalk
- Funeral March of a Marionette by Charles Gounod
- Serenade of the Jealous Lover by Gretry (trans. by Sigismond Thalberg)
- Poeme Erotique by Edvard Grieg
- The Harmonious Blacksmith by Georg Frideric Handel
- Mazurka by Erik Meyer Helmund
- Reveries by Ferdinand Hiller
- Souvenir de Trovatore by Richard Hoffman
- Will-o'-the-Wisp, Op. 217, No. 3 by A. Jungmann
- Chant du Bivuoac by Eugene Ketterer
- Prayer, from the opera Der Freischutz by D. Krug
- Mein Innigster (from a song by Warlamoff) by Theodore Kullak
- Mandolina (Mexican Serenade) by Otto Langey
- Two Larks by Theodore Leschetizky
- La Fille de Madame Angot, Op. 169 (Fantaisie Brillante) by J. Leybach
- Rakoczy March by Franz Liszt
- At the Lake of Wallenstadt by Franz Liszt
- La Fontaine by Ch. B. Lysberg
- Page's Song (from the Huguenots) by Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Bolero (Spanish Dance Op. 12, No. 5) by Moritz Moszkowski
- Romance from the Second Concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Galop (from Orpheus) by Jacques Offenbach
- The Celebrated "Witches Dance" by Nicolo Paganini (trans. by W.V. Wallace)
- Old Rosin the Bow (with variations) by W.C. Peters
- Sylvan Dreams by E.S. Phelps
- Prayer by Carl Reinecke
- The Asra by Anton Rubinstein (trans. by Franz Liszt)
- Zigeunner-Weisen (Gypsy Dances) by Pablo de Sarasate
- Un Petit Ballet by P. A. Schnecker
- Mardi Gras by Franz Schubert
- The Miller and the Torrent by Franz Schubert
- Praise of Tears (Eloge des Larmes) by Franz Schubert (trans. by Stephen Heller)
- Impromptu Op. 142 No. 2 by Franz Schubert
- Menuetto by Franz Schubert
- May Song by Jos. Schulz-Weida
- Barcarolle Op. 88 by Sydney Smith
- Duet from Mozart's "The Magic Flute" by Sigismond Thalberg
- Romanze by Warlamoff (paraphrase by Theodore Kullak)
- The Song of the Robin by George William Warren
- Polish National Dance (Kuyawiak) by Henri Wieniawski
Edition details
- Title: The World's Best Composers: Famous Compositions for the Piano
- Publisher: The University Society
- Date of publication: 1900
- Editor-in-chief: Victor Herbert
- Associate editors: Fanny Morris Smith and Louis R. Dressler