Free piano sheet music which you can search by sight-reading difficulty, number of sharps or flats, composer, title or style.
Here is where you’ll find a large selection of free piano sheet music (taken from IMSLP) in the “harder” keys, that is, with four or more sharps or flats which you can easily search by:
- sight-reading difficulty;
- number of sharps or flats;
- composer;
- title; or
- style.
You’ll discover pieces by the well-known and lesser-known composers from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Early 20th Century and Modern periods.
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Pieces with four or more sharps
| Composer | Title | Number of Sharps | Sight-Reading Difficulty | Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tinyakov | Valse Mélancolique Op.2 | 4 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Ashton | Concertstücke Op.137 No.2 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Grondahl | Étude de Concert Op.47 No.3 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| De Castillon | 6 Valses Humoristiques No.1 and 3 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Lejeal | 3 Morceaux No.1 | 4 | Easy | Romantic |
| Henderson-Sellers | Two Minute Waltz | 4 | Easy | Modern |
| Bajardi | Ballata | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Balakirev | Toccata | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Barjansky | Sonate Op.11 No.2 Movement 2 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Beer | Mazurka Brillante No.2 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Beethoven | Piano Sonata Op.27 No.2 Movements 1 and 3 | 4 | Medium | Classical |
| Beethoven | Piano Sonata Op.109 Movements 1 and 3 | 4 | Very Hard | Classical |
| Beethoven | Sonata Op.14 No.1 Movements 1 and 3 | 4 | Medium | Classical |
| Berg | Klavierstück | 4 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Blumenfeld | Deux Fragments Lyriques Op.47 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Brandeis | Humpty Funeral Op.70 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Brice | Sonata No.1 Movements 1 and 3 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Chaminade | Tristesse Op.104 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Mayer | 6 Études Mélodiques Op.149 No.5 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Nichelmann | Allegro (1757) | 4 | Medium | Classical |
| Nichelmann | Allegro | 4 | Medium | Classical |
| Chopin | Fantaisie-Impromptu | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Chopin | Nocturne in C-sharp minor | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Chopin | Nocturne Op.62 No.2 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Chopin | Nocturne Oubliée | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Chopin | Polonaise Op.26 No.1 | 4 | Very Hard | Romantic |
| Chopin | Prelude Op.28 No.9 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Chopin | Prelude Op.28 No.10 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Fabrizio | Valse Op.4 | 4 | Medium | Modern |
| Ponomareff | Steps in the Darkness | 4 | Easy | Modern |
| Nazareth | 9 de Julho | 4 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Pessard | 2 Romances Op.10 No.2 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Souto | Amor Meu Grande Amor | 4 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Brisson | Amaryllis_Air_de_Louis_XIII | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| De Beaufranchet | Athènes Intro and Coda | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Liszt | Feuille_d'Album S164 No.1 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Mendelssohn | 3 Fantaisies or Caprices Op.16 No.3 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Kelly | Waltz | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Schubert | Adagio in E Major D612 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Schubert | Menuetto D600 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Schubert | Piano Sonata D655 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Schubert | Piano Sonata D154 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Schubert | Sonata D157 Movement 1 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Schubert | Sonata Op.147 Movement 2 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Zintl | 12 Variations in E Major | 4 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Zintl | Hommage à Chopin | 4 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Zureich | Albumblatt Op.5 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| David | Fantasca Op.49 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Fauré | Pièces Brèves Op.84 No.5 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Grothe | 3 Piano Pieces No.3 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Handel | Air HWV425 | 4 | Easy | Baroque |
| Trehde | Air du Louis XIII Op.262 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Gottschalk | Souvenir de Cuba | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| De Blanck | Sérénade Op.4 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Duvernoy | 2 Mélodies Op.80 No.1 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Février | Morceau de Lecture à Première Vue | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Ghys | Air Provençal | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Rohbock | The Ada Polka | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Villa-Lobos | A Lenda do Caboclo | 4 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Villa-Lobos | Ondulando | 4 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Henderson-Sellers | A Song Alone | 4 | Easy | Modern |
| Brüll | Berceuse Op.51 No.1 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Brüll | Theme and Variations Op.35 No.1 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Gibsone | An Episode | 4 | Easy | Romantic |
| Moscheles | Prelude No.9 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Arribas y Arribas | Capricho | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Dovicchi | Arabesque Op.52 | 4 | Medium | Modern |
| Dybicz | Etude 2 | 4 | Hard | Modern |
| Kittl | 6 Idylles Op.1 No.1 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Haydn | Sonata HobXVI-36 Movements 1 and 3 | 4 | Hard | Classical |
| Holbrooke | Valse de Concert Op.79 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Kowalewski | Prelude and Fugue | 4 | Hard | Baroque |
| Nicodé | 10 Poems Op.22 No.2 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Hartmann | Albumsblad | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Kirnberger | Allegro in E | 4 | Medium | Classical |
| Pachman | Fugue No.10 | 4 | Hard | Modern |
| Pachman | Prelude No.10 | 4 | Medium | Modern |
| Reis | Meu Sonho | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Bach | Prelude and Fugue BWV849 | 4 | Hard | Baroque |
| Bach | Prelude and Fugue BWV873 | 4 | Hard | Baroque |
| Jimenez | Pequeño Vals Op.94 No.3 | 4 | Hard | Modern |
| Schulhoff | Aubade Op.42 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Schulhoff | Waltz Op.48 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Wackenthaler | Tarentelle Op.63 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Wihtol | 3 Preludes Op.16 No.3 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Woelfl | Le Diable à Quatre Sonata Op.50 | 4 | Hard | Classical |
| Woelfl | Sonata Op.15 No.3 Movements 1 and 3 | 4 | Medium | Classical |
| Kelly | Scherzo | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Kontski | Sans Espoir Op.55 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Lacombe | Valse No.3 Op.58 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Calvo | Malvaloca | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Demarin | Toccata Loca No.5 | 4 | Hard | Modern |
| Florczak | Fugue No.4 | 4 | Hard | Baroque |
| Florczak | Piano Sonata No.8 Movements 1 and 3 | 4 | Medium | Classical |
| Florczak | Prelude No.4 | 4 | Medium | Baroque |
| Lorenz | 3 Walzer Op.8 No.2 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Martinez | Sonata No.3 Movements 1 and 3 | 4 | Medium | Classical |
| Balakirev | Mazurka No.2 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Chartier | Génuflexion No.1 | 4 | Easy | Modern |
| Karpow | Mazourka Op.5 | 4 | Very Hard | Romantic |
| Lopez-Benitez | Divertimento Op.42 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Lysenko | Nocturne Op.19 | 4 | Very Hard | Romantic |
| Moszkowski | Allegro Scherzando Op.20 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Pogudin | Waltz No.2 | 4 | Medium | Modern |
| Reger | Perpetuum Mobile | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Rondeau | Muss I Denn | 4 | Medium | Modern |
| Severo | Sonata Op.23 No.5 | 4 | Very Hard | Modern |
| Shuey | Prelude | 4 | Very Hard | Romantic |
| Mendelssohn | Sonata Op.6 Movements 1 and 3 | 4 | Very Hard | Romantic |
| Michalowski | Mazourka No.2 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Michalowski | Mazourka Op.17 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Michalowski | Mélodie Op.12 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Moor | Esquisse Op.82 No.2 | 4 | Very Hard | Romantic |
| Abelardo | Nocturne No.1 | 4 | Very Hard | Romantic |
| Medtner | Variations Op.55 | 4 | Very Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Myaskovsky | Sonata No.5 Op.64 Movement 2 | 4 | Very Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Nizhankovsky | Waltz | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Rutkowski | Romance Op.8 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Vilinsky | Prelude for the Left Hand Op.3 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Nerini | Piano Sonata Op.13 No.1 | 4 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Nollet | Élégie Op.88 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Bellenot | Scherzetto | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Chabeaux | Mazurka Op.20 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Lange-Müller | Mod Jul | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Graener | Drei Impressionen No.2 | 4 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Tchaikovsky | Piano Sonata Op.80 Movements 1,3 and 4 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Vondracek | New Age Concert Etude No.2 | 4 | Medium | Modern |
| Piaggio | Piano Sonata Movements 1,3 and 4 | 4 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Plante | Fantaisie pour Piano Op.101 | 4 | Very Hard | Modern |
| Ponomareff | Russian Romance | 4 | Medium | Modern |
| Breitenbach | Piano_Sonata_Movements 1,2 and 3 | 4 | Hard | Modern |
| Glière | Scherzo Op.15 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Joseffy | Arabesque | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Laparra | Valse Lente | 4 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Rodriguez | Sonata in E Major Movements 1 and 3 | 4 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Wagner | Albumblatt für Ernst Benedikt Kietz WWV.64 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Ravel | Menuet | 4 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Aksakov | 4 Pieces No.1 and 4 | 4 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Beneking | Nocturnes for One Hand Alone | 4 | Medium | Modern |
| Elmas | Mazurka No.5 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Elmas | Polonaise No.2 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Feinberg | Sonata No.9 | 4 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Heller | Impromptu Op.129 No.2 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Berkahn | Suite in E No.I,II and IV | 4 | Medium | Modern |
| Jadassohn | Serenade Np.2 Op.125 Movement 1 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Jadassohn | Serenade No.2 Op.125 Movement 7 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Jadassohn | Serenade No.2 Op.125 Movement 8 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Karg-Elert | 7 Charakteristische Stücke für Klavier Op.32 no.7 | 4 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Zhang | Etude No.10 | 4 | Very Hard | Modern |
| Zhang | Grand Fantasia "The Earth and the New Planet" Movement 3 | 4 | Very Hard | Modern |
| Scarlatti | Sonata K246 | 4 | Medium | Baroque |
| Scarlatti | Sonata K247 | 4 | Medium | Baroque |
| Schubert | 5 Piano Pieces D459/459a No.I, II and V | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Simpson | Invention No.22 | 4 | Medium | Baroque |
| Carreno | Plainte! Élégie Op.17 No.1 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Tellefsen | Grande Étude Op.25 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Tellefsen | Pavane de la Reine Élisabeth Op.44 | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Morris | Elegy No.2 | 4 | Hard | Modern |
| Tena Manrique | Nocturno Op.9 No.3 | 4 | Medium | Modern |
| Tinel | Joie Op.14 No.2 | 4 | Very Hard | Romantic |
| Tinel | Petites Fleurs Op.14 No.3 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Carbajo | 4 French Waltzes | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Carbajo | Study No.4 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Kosenko | Nocturne Fantaisie Op.4 | 4 | Very Hard | Romantic |
| Puchtler | Romanze Op.7 | 4 | hard | Romantic |
| Weber | Adagio Patetico | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Wot | Nocturne Op.205 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Leroux | Morceau de Lecture à Première Vue | 4 | Medium | Romantic |
| Scharwenka | Polonaise Op.12 | 4 | Hard | Romantic |
| Yang | Mazurka in C-Sharp Minor | 4 | Easy | Romantic |
| Barjansky | Sonate Op.11 No.2 Movements 1,3 and 4 | 5 | Hard | Romantic |
| David | Souvenance Op.31 | 5 | Easy | Romantic |
| De Castillon | 6 Valses Humoristiques No.5 | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Jensen | Ricordanza | 5 | Hard | Romantic |
| Longo | Sonata Op.36 Movement 1 | 5 | Hard | Romantic |
| Longo | Sonata Op.36 Movements 2 and 3 | 5 | Hard | Romantic |
| Scriabin | Valse | 5 | Hard | Romantic |
| Verbalis | Flowing | 5 | Easy | Modern |
| Alkan | Nocturne Op.22 | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Bovy-Lysberg | Barcarolle Op.130 | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Chaminade | Menuet Op.5 | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Chaminade | Nocturne Op.165 | 5 | Hard | Romantic |
| Piaggio | Piano Sonata Movement 2 | 5 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Scarlatti | Sonata K244 | 5 | Easy | Baroque |
| Scarlatti | Sonata K245 | 5 | Easy | Baroque |
| Scarlatti | Sonata K261 | 5 | Easy | Baroque |
| Scarlatti | Sonata K262 | 5 | Easy | Baroque |
| Lebigot | Butterflying | 5 | Medium | Modern |
| D'Albert | Serenata | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Guiraud | Scherzo | 5 | Easy | Romantic |
| Nazareth | Carioca | 5 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Nazareth | Magoas | 5 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Chopin | Nocturne Op.62 No.1 | 5 | Hard | Romantic |
| Chopin | Mazurka Op.33 No.1 | 5 | Easy | Romantic |
| Chopin | Nocturne Op 32 No.1 | 5 | Hard | Romantic |
| Chopin | Nocturne Op.9 No.2 | 5 | Hard | Romantic |
| Chopin | Prelude Op.28 No.11 | 5 | Easy | Romantic |
| Chopin | Prelude Op.28 No.12 | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Dulcken | Minuetto Aerioso | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Hiller | Moderne Suite Op.144 No.I, II, IV and VI | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Schubert | Sonata D157 Movement 3 | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Schubert | Sonata Op.147 Movement 1 | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Schubert | Sonata Op.147 Movement 4 | 5 | Easy | Romantic |
| Soldá | Sonata movement 1 | 5 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Soldá | Sonata Movement 3 | 5 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Osborne | La Belle Nuit Op.75 | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Martucci | Capriccio Op.15 No.4 | 5 | Hard | Romantic |
| Pierné | Sérénade à Colombine | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Roguski | Le Souvenir Op.7 | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Gottschalk | Hercule Op.88 | 5 | Hard | Romantic |
| Cowell | Episode | 5 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Déonna | Elfes Op.13 | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Kowalski | Dolor! Elegie Op.67 | 5 | Medium | Modern |
| Litolff | Impromptu Op.124 | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Litolff | Scherzo Op.115 | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Roullet | Le Moulin de la Jeunesse | 5 | Medium | Modern |
| Stief | Chosen Solitude | 5 | Easy | Modern |
| Stief | Last Flight | 5 | Easy | Modern |
| Villa-Lobos | As Tres Marias No.3 | 5 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Benedict | Reverie Op.39 | 5 | Very Hard | Romantic |
| Field | Rondo Écossais | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Field | Sonata Movements 1 and 2 | 5 | Hard | Romantic |
| Pachman | Fugue No.11 | 5 | Medium | Baroque |
| Pachman | Fugue No.12 | 5 | Medium | Baroque |
| Pachman | Prelude No.11 | 5 | Medium | Baroque |
| Pachman | Prelude No.12 | 5 | Medium | Baroque |
| Piaser | Tableau No.1 | 5 | Hard | Modern |
| Rheinberger | Charakterstücke in Canonischer Form Op.180 No.11 | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Bach | Prelude and Fugue BWV863 | 5 | Hard | Baroque |
| Bach | Prelude and Fugue BWV868 | 5 | Hard | Baroque |
| Bach | Prelude and Fugue BWV887 | 5 | Hard | Baroque |
| Bach | Prelude and Fugue BWV892 | 5 | Hard | Baroque |
| Schulhoff | Largo Funèbre Op.57 | 5 | Hard | Romantic |
| Wielhorski | Mazourka Op.31 | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Wieniawski | Impromptu Op.19 | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Wieniawski | Sur l'Océan Op.28 | 5 | Very Hard | Romantic |
| Zarembski | Mazurka de Concert Op.15 No.2 | 5 | Hard | Romantic |
| Eiges | Variations Op.36 | 5 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Demarin | Toccata Loca 4 | 5 | Medium | Modern |
| Lundberg | Ballade Op.47 | 5 | Hard | Romantic |
| Balakirev | Tarantella | 5 | Hard | Romantic |
| Balakirev | Waltz No.7 | 5 | Hard | Romantic |
| Levitzki | Valse de Concert Op.1 No.1 | 5 | Hard | Romantic |
| Lysenko | Impromptu in the Style of Chopin Op.38 | 5 | Hard | Romantic |
| Shuey | Exotic Waltz | 5 | Easy | Modern |
| Myaskovsky | Sonata No.5 Op.64 Movement 1 | 5 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Shcherbachyov | 5 Mazurkas Op.16 No.3 | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Cavallo | Près la Fontaine du Loup Op.61 | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Fahrbach | Kukuk-Polka Op.124 | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Saurat | Heure Triste | 5 | Medium | Romantic |
| Schreiber | Impromptu Op.13 | 5 | Hard | Modern |
| Zhang | Etude No.12 | 5 | Hard | Modern |
| Bowen | Reverie Op.86 | 5 | Very Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Andreasyan | Meditation | 5 | Medium | Modern |
| Ashton | Sonata Op.168 No.5 Movements 1 and 4 | 6 | Very Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Bourgault-Ducoudray | L'Enterrement d'Ophélie | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| De Castillon | 6 Valses Humoristiques No.4 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Tinyakov | Two Preludes Op.3 No.2 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Karolic | Little Chinese | 6 | Very Easy | Modern |
| Nägel | Das Schloss an der Wupper | 6 | Medium | Modern |
| Scarlatti | Sonata K318 | 6 | Medium | Baroque |
| Scarlatti | Sonata K319 | 6 | Medium | Baroque |
| Hutcheson | 2 Pieces Op.11 No.2 | 6 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Nazareth | Improviso | 6 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Nazareth | Paraiso | 6 | Easy | Early 20th Century |
| Pavlov | Valse To the Memory of Scriabin | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Schwarzbach | Pensée Fugitive | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Ayres | The Open Road Op.11 | 6 | Very Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Bendel | Nizza Op.13 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Chopin | Allegretto | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Chopin | Barcarolle Op.60 | 6 | Very Hard | Romantic |
| Chopin | Impromptu Op.36 No.2 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Chopin | Nocturne Op.15 No.2 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Chopin | Prelude Op.28 No.13 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Gernsheim | Auf der Lagune Op.71 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Gernsheim | Romanze Op.15 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Liszt | Impromptu (Nocturne) | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Liszt | Piano Piece S193 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Soldá | Sonata Movement 2 | 6 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Février | Nocturne No.1 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Hopekirk | Sundown | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Herzogenberg | Prelude and Fugue Op.49 No.1 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Brüll | Six Piano Pieces Op.38 No.4 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Krzyzanowski | Krakowiak Op.47 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Kwast | Romanze | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Krebs | Fugue WV409 | 6 | Medium | Baroque |
| Krebs | Prelude WV409 | 6 | Medium | Baroque |
| Monzo | Etude | 6 | Medium | Modern |
| Pachman | Fugue No.13 | 6 | Hard | Modern |
| Pachman | Prelude No.13 | 6 | Medium | Modern |
| Bach | Prelude and Fugue BWV858 | 6 | Medium | Baroque |
| Bach | Prelude and Fugue BWV882 | 6 | Hard | Baroque |
| Saldiën | Stukje voor Piano Op.1 | 6 | Easy | Modern |
| Wielhorski | Mazurka Op.24 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Beethoven | Piano Sonata Op.78 No.24 | 6 | Medium | Classical |
| Florczak | Nocturne No.5 | 6 | Easy | Modern |
| Levy | Humoristica 2a Valsa Lenta Op.25 | 6 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Gottschalk | Pensée Poétique Op.62 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Miguez | Nocturno Op.10 | 6 | Very Hard | Romantic |
| Polovinkin | Mazurka | 6 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Soler | Sonata R90 | 6 | Medium | Classical |
| Kuczynski | Ein Fantasiestuck | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Elmas | Mazurka No.1 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Kontski | Rêverie Fantastique Op.18 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Lyapunov | Variations On a Russian Theme Op.49 | 6 | Very Hard | Romantic |
| Palmgren | Gnistor Etude | 6 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Costa Nogueras | Fileuse Morceau de Concert | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Kryukov | Nocturne Op.5 No.1 | 6 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Klasen | Caprice Op.17 | 6 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Bach (C.P.E.) | La Xénophone | 7 | Easy | Baroque |
| Snuggs | Etude No.3 | 7 | Medium | Modern |
| Schubert | German Dance D139 | 7 | Easy | Romantic |
| Wu | Sweet Divertimento No.1 | 7 | Medium | Modern |
| Bach | Prelude and Fugue BWV848 | 7 | Medium | Baroque |
| Bach | Prelude and Fugue BWV872 | 7 | Medium | Baroque |
| Florczak | Fugue No.3 | 7 | Medium | Baroque |
| Florczak | Prelude No.3 | 7 | Easy | Baroque |
Pieces with four or more flats
| Composer | Title | Number of Flats | Sight-Reading Difficulty | Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashton | Concertstücke Op.137 No.3 | 7 | Medium | Romantic |
| Simpson | Invention No.24 | 7 | Medium | Modern |
| Sgambati | Gavotte Op.14 | 7 | Very Hard | Romantic |
| Demarin | Toccata Loca No.2 | 7 | Very Hard | Modern |
| Demarin | Toccata Loca No.7 | 7 | Hard | Modern |
| Shcherbachyov | 5 Mazurkas Op.16 No.2 | 7 | Medium | Romantic |
| Sveinbjornsson | Impromptu Nocturne | 7 | Hard | Romantic |
| Mathieu | Berceuse | 6 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Stanchinsky | Canon à 2 Voix | 6 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Mayerl | Railroad Rhythm | 6 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Chaminade | Valse Op.91 No.4 | 6 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Nazareth | Chave de Ouro | 6 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Nazareth | Elegantissima | 6 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Nazareth | Gaucho | 6 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Nazareth | Labirinto | 6 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Soro | Dos Tonadas Chilenas No.1 | 6 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Blanchard | Valse Fantastique Op.6 | 6 | Very Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Dobrowen | Impromptu Op.14 | 6 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Massa | Aires Criollos | 6 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Skrzydlewski | Marche Funèbre | 6 | Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Tinel | Landschap | 6 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Tinel | Wiegelied | 6 | Easy | Early 20th Century |
| Versel | Petite Boîte à Musique | 6 | Very Hard | Early 20th Century |
| Delmas | Le Cimetière de Fougax | 6 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Goldmark | Gavotte | 6 | Medium | Early 20th Century |
| Le Coustumer | Fugue à Réponses Diatoniques | 6 | Hard | Baroque |
| Pachman | Fugue No.14 | 6 | Medium | Baroque |
| Pachman | Prelude No.14 | 6 | Medium | Baroque |
| Bach | Fugue BWV Anh. 102 | 6 | Hard | Baroque |
| Bach | Prelude and Fugue BWV.853 | 6 | Hard | Baroque |
| Rolle | Sonata in E-flat minor | 6 | Medium | Baroque |
| Marando | Bagatelle Op.13 No.3 | 6 | Easy | Modern |
| Peres | Rapsódia Zeva'ah Op.8 | 6 | Medium | Modern |
| Melander | Piano Sonata No.5 Movements 1 and 4 | 6 | Medium | Modern |
| Simpson | Invention No.23 | 6 | Medium | Modern |
| Bachlund | On a la Fiera di San Francè | 6 | Medium | Modern |
| Roullet | Couleurs d'Automne Op.52 | 6 | Medium | Modern |
| Stief | The Bell | 6 | Easy | Modern |
| Holloway | Nocturne No.5 | 6 | Easy | Modern |
| Song | Prelude in G-flat | 6 | Medium | Modern |
| Chartier | Génuflexion No.3 | 6 | Easy | Modern |
| Chartier | Some Kind of Peace | 6 | Medium | Modern |
| Severo | Night Horseman | 6 | Easy | Modern |
| Severo | Sonata No.6 Op.28 | 6 | Medium | Modern |
| Yanagida | Piano Suite Movement 1 | 6 | Easy | Modern |
| Kang | Gorgeous Waltz Op.5 | 6 | Medium | Modern |
| Kumar | Jumelle qui Joue | 6 | Medium | Modern |
| Rolock | Prelude in E-flat minor | 6 | Medium | Modern |
| Morris | Fantasie Op.7 No.1 | 6 | Medium | Modern |
| Alario Del Rio | Walzer Op.28 No.8 | 6 | Medium | Modern |
| Stenhammar | Impromptu | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Kalinnikov | Pièce | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Mattei | La Lyre Op.32 | 6 | Very Hard | Romantic |
| Lack | Marche Funèbre Op.9 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Tellefsen | Nocturne Op.39 No.4 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Zhang | Etude No.14 in E-flat minor | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Taneyev | Scherzo in E-flat minor | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Schantz | Rhapsody Op.51 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Lyapunov | Valse Impromptu Op.29 No.2 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Lyapunov | Humoreske Op.34 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Heller | Tarantelle Op.61 No.2 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Elmas | Valse No.2 | 6 | Easy | Romantic |
| Elmas | Nocturne No.5 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Elmas | Barcarolle No.1 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Barmotine | Sonata for Piano Op.4 | 6 | Very Hard | Romantic |
| Carter | Méditation Nocturne Religieuse Op.43 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Fuchs | Sonata Op.19 Movement 1 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Franck | Waldphantasien Op.38 Movement 1 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Delaunay | Feux-Follets | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| De Vilbac | Tristesse | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| De Koven | Prelude in E-flat minor Op.165 No.5 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Castro | Valse Rêveuse Op.19 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Tchaikovsky | Capriccio Op.8 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Szalit | Intermezzo | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Kreider | Impromptu Op.5 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Shcherbachyov | Impromptu Villanelle Op.38 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Espadero | Tristesse Op.53 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Locke | Variations in E-flat minor | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| De Rutkowski | Serenade Op.16 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Moszkowski | Scherzo-Valse Op.40 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Moszkowski | Grande Valse de Concert Op.88 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Anhelli | Alla Minuetto Op.20 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Karpow | Valse Op.6 No.3 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Balakirev | Mazurka No.7 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Balakirev | Mazurka No.4 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Balakirev | Dumka | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Brassin | Nocturne Op.17 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Wieniawski | Song without Words | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Nowakowski | Barcarolle Op.42 | 6 | Easy | Romantic |
| Kunkel | Zephyr and the Brook | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Brahms | Scherzo Op.4 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Bachmann | Fleur de Champs | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Gibsone | A Lullaby | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Brüll | Thema mit Variationen Op.39 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| McLean | Adieu Op.9 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Pachulski | Octaven-Etude | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Oswald | Valse Lente | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Oswald | Il Neige | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Ramenti | Valse Boston No.18 | 6 | Easy | Romantic |
| Ramenti | Savoia Valse | 6 | Easy | Romantic |
| Ramenti | La Valse de Vénus | 6 | Easy | Romantic |
| Wollenhaupt | Marche Hongroise Op.66 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Sgambati | Prelude and Fugue Op.6 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Schumann | Tarentelle Op.11 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Moore | Claribel Op.35 No.4 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Martucci | Tempo di Mazurka Op.11 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Bachmann | Barcarolle Op.17 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Villanueva | Vals Poetico | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Schubert | Waltz in G-flat Major D.Anh 1/14 | 6 | Easy | Romantic |
| Schubert | Impromptu Op.90 No.3 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Schubert | German Dance D.722 | 6 | Easy | Romantic |
| Santiago | Nocturne in E-flat minor | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Liszt | Marche Hongroise S.233b | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Liszt | Klavierstück in E-flat minor S.692n | 6 | Easy | Romantic |
| Hermann | Rêverie Russe | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Chopin | Waltzes Op.70 No.1 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Chopin | Impromptu No.3 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Chopin | Contredanse B.17 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Brandies | Capriccietto | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Boscovitz | Le Lac Enchantée Op.195 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Blumenfeld | Épisodes dans la Vie d'une Danseuse Op.52 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Bendel | Dornröschen | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Behr | Perce-Neige Op.90 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Hargreaves | La Rubia | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| De Beaufranchet | Speranza Suite de Valses No.1 | 6 | Easy | Romantic |
| Tinel | Le Soir Op.2 No.2 | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
| Redon | Berceuse Créole Op.22 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Blanchet | Toscin Passacaglia Op.28 | 6 | Hard | Romantic |
| Prudent | Adieu Printemps | 6 | Medium | Romantic |
How to search for pieces
You can either use the search box to find a particular composer, a type of piece (for example, nocturne, prelude, fugue, etc.) or a style. Alternatively, you can click at the top of each category to see the items of that category listed in alphabetical order.
Levels of difficulty
There are five levels of sight-reading difficulty:
Very Easy – Easy – Medium – Hard – Very Hard
Note that the level of sight-reading difficulty may differ to that of the playing difficulty. In other words, what might be hard to play accurately at tempo, say a Presto movement with five sharps, might not be as hard to sight-read at a much slower tempo.
Thus in determining the sight-reading difficulty of a piece, I looked at how hard it was to process the information on the page, as opposed to looking at how hard it was to play the notes up to speed.
Tip: to get the most out of the pieces you sight-read, I recommend that you sight-read fast pieces at a slow tempo. Don’t attempt to play them at tempo (unless you think you can pull it off!).
Why this page?
Finding sight-readable pieces with one to three sharps or flats is easy but for some reason, there tends to be a shortage of sight-readable pieces with more than three sharps or flats so I wanted to fill the gap and find pieces in those keys.
IMSLP, from which I’ve taken the pieces, is a great resource for finding free sheet music but the downside is that the search function is quite limited. As I’ve mentioned in How to Sight-Read in Any Key: Part II, if you want to find piano pieces in a particular key, you can do so by searching for “piano + [key]” but the results will only give you pieces that contain these keywords in the title! This means that you miss out on hundreds of pieces! And the other sheet music website I mentioned, 8notes.com, enables you to search pieces by key signatures however the number of pieces is very limited, especially with key signatures containing 4 or more sharps or flats.
Hence why I wanted to create this page and list all those other pieces out there you would otherwise miss out on.
Thank you very much. It’s very helpful.
You may want to look at the link on Chopin op28.11. It goes to a blank sheet on my browser
I’m glad you find it useful. Thanks for pointing that out! I have fixed it now. If you see any other broken links, let me know.
Wow! This must’ve taken some time! I’ve been trying to catalog my sheet music since spring and still don’t even know where to start. 🤦🏼♀️Thanks so much for this!
Haha, yes, it takes a long time, especially for piano music… My pleasure! I hope you find it useful 😉
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Ms. Emmanuelle Fonsny: Thanks so much for your effort on this page! This page deserves to be pinned to the front page or a more visible position.
Thank you, Vinny!