Best Piano Music

An early-era galop themed around the custom of the college "cane rush" Free score: https://musescore.com/user/3636436/scores/5936490

Simpering Susan was written in 1905 by composer Frank H. Grey. Free score: https://musescore.com/user/3636436/scores/5933691

The Auto Show was written in 1908 by composer Frank H. Grey. The cover of the original score reads "Official march of the Boston Automobile Show" and it is dedicated to Chester F. Campbell, Mgr. Boston Auto Show. The two first notes are indicated to be played as "Auto horn" Free score: https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Auto_Show_(Grey%2C_Frank_H.)

Juliana (Valse Hesitation) was written in 1915 by composer Frank H. Grey. Free score transcribed by Œnanthic: https://musescore.com/user/3636436/scores/6799209

Composer Frank H. Grey wrote this piece in 1925. Free score transcribed by Œnanthic: https://musescore.com/user/3636436/scores/6807266

Composer Frank H. Grey wrote this sweet piece in 1926. Score typeset by Œnanthic: https://musescore.com/user/3636436/scores/8418401

Composer Frank H. Grey wrote this waltz in 1925. Free score transcribed by Œnanthic: https://musescore.com/user/3636436/scores/6422729 See the original music here: http://www.sfsma.org/melody-magazines-issues-and-indices/ (April 1921)

Composer Frank H. Grey wrote this waltz in 1925. Free score transcribed by Œnanthic: https://musescore.com/user/3636436/scores/6820304

Composer Frank H. Grey wrote this slow waltz "Love In Venice" in 1924. Free score transcribed by Œnanthic: https://musescore.com/user/3636436/scores/6525685

Composer Ricardo Castro (1864-1907) was a Mexican concert pianist and composer. He wrote for both piano and symphony orchestra. I found this valse well written and worth it to be listened to -at least once. The score is in the public domain and freely available at IMSLP. It was first published in 1908.

French composer Eugène Nollet (1828-1904)

Riccardo Cataldi: Variations On A Theme Of Cafiso by Carlos Márquez

Composer Vicente Costa Nogueras was born in Alcoy (Alicante) in 1852 and died in Barcelona in 1919. He was a composer, soloist and piano teacher.

I started to think that the lack of popularity of this composer is maybe in part due to his hard to remember name/last name combination... I certianly have a hard time remembering it! Composer Vicente Costa Nogueras was born in Alcoy (Alicante) in 1852 and died in Barcelona in 1919. He was a composer, soloist and piano teacher.

Written in 1886 by Albéniz.

Felipe Pedrell (1841 – 1922) was a Spanish composer, guitarist and musicologist. Among his main direct disciples are Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Cristòfor Taltabull, Pedro Blanco, Joaquín Turina and Manuel de Falla.

Stephan Beneking: Nocturne in D Major, No. 5 by Carlos Márquez

From "Beneking: 24 Nocturnes for young Pianists"

Vicente Costa y Nogueras: Barcarola by Carlos Márquez

This is another fun short piano piece by this Brazilian composer from the beginning of the XX century. Background picture: https://flic.kr/p/6tZqkV Atrevido , Brazilian tango published in 1913 Casa Arthur Napoleão (Sampaio, Araújo & Cia.), dedicated to his friend Dr. Jorge Fragoso. The son of the dedicator stated, in an interview with the biographer Luiz Antonio de Almeida: "My father was graduating in medicine when he met Ernesto Nazareth. He was leaving college and going to play at Cinema Odeon, listening to Nazareth. From there, a friendship was born that would last a lifetime. After graduating, my father moved to São Paulo, even hosting the composer in our house. On one of my father's trips to the Odeon, Nazareth introduced him to new music. And since he had, my father, some notion of music called Nazareth's attention to an "oversight". as to the number of bars contained in a certain part of that song, or something along those lines. He then looked at my father and said: ' - You're pretty cheeky, huh!