midiviz

Piano MIDI Collection

A curated collection of classical, modern, and video game piano pieces in MIDI format.

Classical Pieces

File Composer Piece
bach_846.mid J.S. Bach Prelude in C Major, BWV 846
bach_847.mid J.S. Bach Prelude & Fugue in C minor, BWV 847
elise.mid Beethoven Für Elise
mond_1.mid Beethoven Moonlight Sonata, 1st Movement
pathetique_1.mid Beethoven Pathétique Sonata, 1st Movement
chpn_op66.mid Chopin Fantaisie-Impromptu, Op. 66
chpn-p15.mid Chopin Prelude No. 15 “Raindrop”
chpn_op27_2.mid Chopin Nocturne Op. 27 No. 2
chpn_op10_e12.mid Chopin Etude Op. 10 No. 12 “Revolutionary”
chp_op18.mid Chopin Grande Valse Brillante, Op. 18
deb_clai.mid Debussy Clair de Lune
deb_pass.mid Debussy Passepied
liz_et2.mid Liszt Etude No. 2
mz_331_1.mid Mozart Piano Sonata No. 11, K. 331
mz_545_1.mid Mozart Piano Sonata No. 16, K. 545
schuim-3.mid Schubert Impromptu No. 3
scn15_7.mid Schumann Träumerei
grieg_halling.mid Grieg Halling
pachelbel_canon.mid Pachelbel Canon in D
bach_toccata.mid J.S. Bach Toccata & Fugue in D minor
bach_850.mid J.S. Bach Prelude & Fugue in D major BWV 850 (WTC I No.5)
bach_goldberg_aria.mid J.S. Bach Goldberg Variations - Aria *
bach_goldberg.mid J.S. Bach Goldberg Variations BWV 988 (complete, without repeats, 37 min) *
bach_goldberg_repeats.mid J.S. Bach Goldberg Variations BWV 988 (complete, with repeats, 72 min) *
bach_wtc1_03.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.3 in C-sharp major BWV 848 *
bach_wtc1_04.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.4 in C-sharp minor BWV 849 *
bach_wtc1_06.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.6 in D minor BWV 851 *
bach_wtc1_08.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.8 in E-flat minor BWV 853 *
bach_wtc1_10.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.10 in E minor BWV 855 *
bach_wtc1_11.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.11 in F major BWV 856 *
bach_wtc1_12.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.12 in F minor BWV 857 *
bach_wtc1_15.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.15 in G major BWV 860 *
bach_wtc1_16.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.16 in G minor BWV 861 *
bach_wtc1_17.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.17 in A-flat major BWV 862 *
bach_wtc1_20.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.20 in A minor BWV 865 *
bach_wtc1_24.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.24 in B minor BWV 869 *
bach_wtc2_01.mid J.S. Bach WTC II No.1 in C major BWV 870 *
bach_wtc2_02.mid J.S. Bach WTC II No.2 in C minor BWV 871 *
bach_wtc2_06p.mid J.S. Bach WTC II No.6 in D minor BWV 875 (Prelude) *
maestro_bach_wtc1_03.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.3 in C-sharp major BWV 848, a 2011 performance ‡
maestro_bach_wtc1_04.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.4 in C-sharp minor BWV 849, a 2014 performance ‡
maestro_bach_850.mid J.S. Bach Prelude & Fugue in D major BWV 850 (WTC I No.5), a 2017 performance ‡
maestro_bach_wtc1_06.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.6 in D minor BWV 851, a 2011 performance ‡
maestro_bach_wtc1_08.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.8 in E-flat minor BWV 853, a 2017 performance ‡
maestro_bach_wtc1_10.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.10 in E minor BWV 855, a 2015 performance ‡
maestro_bach_wtc1_11.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.11 in F major BWV 856, a 2015 performance ‡
maestro_bach_wtc1_12.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.12 in F minor BWV 857, a 2017 performance ‡
maestro_bach_wtc1_15.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.15 in G major BWV 860, a 2008 performance ‡
maestro_bach_wtc1_17.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.17 in A-flat major BWV 862, a 2013 performance ‡
maestro_bach_wtc1_20.mid J.S. Bach WTC I No.20 in A minor BWV 865, a 2017 performance ‡
maestro_bach_wtc2_01.mid J.S. Bach WTC II No.1 in C major BWV 870, a 2015 performance ‡
maestro_bach_wtc2_02.mid J.S. Bach WTC II No.2 in C minor BWV 871, a 2011 performance ‡
maestro_bach_wtc2_06.mid J.S. Bach WTC II No.6 in D minor BWV 875, a 2013 performance ‡
schuim-1.mid Schubert Impromptu Op.90 No.1 (D.899)
schuim-2.mid Schubert Impromptu Op.90 No.2
schuim-4.mid Schubert Impromptu Op.90 No.4
schumm-3.mid Schubert Moment Musical No.3
schubert_d935_2.mid Schubert Impromptu Op.142 No.2 (D.935)
schubert_d935_3.mid Schubert Impromptu Op.142 No.3 (Rosamunde variations)
schub_d760_1.mid Schubert Wanderer Fantasy (1st mvt)
schu_143_1.mid Schubert Piano Sonata D.784 (1st mvt)
schub_d960_1.mid Schubert Piano Sonata D.960 (1st mvt)
scn15_1.mid Schumann Of Foreign Lands and Peoples (Kinderszenen)
scn15_6.mid Schumann An Important Event (Kinderszenen)
scn15_12.mid Schumann Child Falling Asleep (Kinderszenen)
scn16_1.mid Schumann Kreisleriana No.1
scn16_2.mid Schumann Kreisleriana No.2
scn68_10.mid Schumann The Happy Farmer (Album for the Young)
schum_abegg.mid Schumann Abegg Variations Op.1
rac_op3_2.mid Rachmaninoff Prelude in C-sharp minor Op.3 No.2
rac_op23_2.mid Rachmaninoff Prelude in B-flat major Op.23 No.2
rac_op23_3.mid Rachmaninoff Prelude in D minor Op.23 No.3
rac_op23_5.mid Rachmaninoff Prelude in G minor Op.23 No.5
rac_op23_7.mid Rachmaninoff Prelude in C minor Op.23 No.7
rac_op32_1.mid Rachmaninoff Prelude in C major Op.32 No.1
rac_op32_13.mid Rachmaninoff Prelude in D-flat major Op.32 No.13
rac_op33_5.mid Rachmaninoff Etude-Tableau Op.33 No.5
rac_op33_6.mid Rachmaninoff Etude-Tableau Op.33 No.6
rac_op33_8.mid Rachmaninoff Etude-Tableau Op.33 No.8
tchai_pletnev_nutcracker_andante.mid Tchaikovsky / Pletnev Andante maestoso (Pas de deux), Concert Suite from The Nutcracker †
grieg_elves_dance.mid Grieg Elves’ Dance, Op. 12 No. 4 §
grieg_op12_1_arietta.mid Grieg Arietta, Op. 12 No. 1 ‖
amy_beach_op25_5_secrets.mid Amy Beach Secrets, Op. 25 No. 5 ‖
ravel_m65_prelude.mid Ravel Prelude in A minor, M. 65 ‖
chaminade_op126_1_idylle.mid Chaminade Idylle, Op. 126 No. 1 ‖
lyadov_op11_1_prelude.mid Lyadov Prelude in B minor, Op. 11 No. 1 ‖
scriabin_op11_14.mid Scriabin Prelude in E-flat minor, Op. 11 No. 14 ¶
scriabin_op11_15.mid Scriabin Prelude in D-flat major, Op. 11 No. 15 ¶
tchai_op39_9_new_doll.mid Tchaikovsky The New Doll, Op. 39 No. 9 ‖
tchai_op39_16_old_french_song.mid Tchaikovsky Old French Song, Op. 39 No. 16 ¤
tchai_op39_20_baba_yaga.mid Tchaikovsky Baba Yaga, Op. 39 No. 20 ‖
bach_wtc1_11p.mid J.S. Bach Prelude in F major, BWV 856 (WTC I No. 11, prelude only) *
liszt_s164g_berlin_preludio.mid Liszt Album-Leaf “Berlin Preludio,” S. 164g ‖
alkan_op75_toccatina.mid Alkan Toccatina, Op. 75 ¶
liszt_s172_1_consolation.mid Liszt Consolation No. 1, S. 172 ¶
liz_rhap02.mid Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 (lassan and friska)
liz_et3.mid Liszt La Campanella (Paganini Etude No.3)
liz_et6.mid Liszt Paganini Etude No.6 (Theme and variations)
liz_et_trans4.mid Liszt Transcendental Etude No.4 (Mazeppa)
liz_et_trans5.mid Liszt Transcendental Etude No.5 (Feux follets)
liz_rhap10.mid Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No.10
liz_rhap12.mid Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No.12
liz_rhap15.mid Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No.15 (Rakoczy March)
deb_prel.mid Debussy Suite bergamasque - Prelude
deb_menu.mid Debussy Suite bergamasque - Menuet
debussy_cc_1.mid Debussy Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (Children’s Corner)
debussy_cc_2.mid Debussy Jimbo’s Lullaby (Children’s Corner)
debussy_cc_3.mid Debussy Serenade for the Doll (Children’s Corner)
debussy_cc_4.mid Debussy The Snow is Dancing (Children’s Corner)
debussy_cc_5.mid Debussy The Little Shepherd (Children’s Corner)
debussy_cc_6.mid Debussy Golliwogg’s Cakewalk (Children’s Corner)
mond_2.mid Beethoven Moonlight Sonata (2nd mvt)
mond_3.mid Beethoven Moonlight Sonata (3rd mvt)
pathetique_2.mid Beethoven Pathetique Sonata (2nd mvt, Adagio)
pathetique_3.mid Beethoven Pathetique Sonata (3rd mvt)
appass_1.mid Beethoven Appassionata Sonata (1st mvt)
appass_3.mid Beethoven Appassionata Sonata (3rd mvt)
waldstein_1.mid Beethoven Waldstein Sonata (1st mvt)
chpn_op10_e01.mid Chopin Etude Op.10 No.1
chpn_op10_e05.mid Chopin Black Key Etude Op.10 No.5
chpn_op25_e1.mid Chopin Aeolian Harp Etude Op.25 No.1
chpn_op25_e11.mid Chopin Winter Wind Etude Op.25 No.11
chpn_op23.mid Chopin Ballade No.1 Op.23
chp_op31.mid Chopin Scherzo No.2 Op.31
chpn_op53.mid Chopin Heroic Polonaise Op.53
chpn_op35_3.mid Chopin Funeral March (Sonata No.2)
chpn-p4.mid Chopin Prelude in E minor Op.28 No.4
chpn-p7.mid Chopin Prelude in A major Op.28 No.7
chpn_op7_1.mid Chopin Mazurka Op.7 No.1
mz_331_3.mid Mozart Rondo alla Turca (K.331, 3rd mvt)
mz_545_2.mid Mozart Piano Sonata K.545 (2nd mvt)
mz_545_3.mid Mozart Piano Sonata K.545 (3rd mvt)
mz_330_1.mid Mozart Piano Sonata K.330 (1st mvt)
mz_332_1.mid Mozart Piano Sonata K.332 (1st mvt)
mz_333_1.mid Mozart Piano Sonata K.333 (1st mvt)
mz_570_1.mid Mozart Piano Sonata K.570 (1st mvt)

Symphonic Works

File Composer Piece
beethoven_sym5_1.mid Beethoven Symphony No.5, 1st Movement
beethoven_sym7_2.mid Beethoven Symphony No.7, 2nd Movement
mozart_sym40_1.mid Mozart Symphony No.40, 1st Movement
mozart_eine_kleine.mid Mozart Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
dvorak_newworld_2.mid Dvorak New World Symphony (Largo)
vivaldi_winter.mid Vivaldi Winter (Four Seasons)
grieg_morning.mid Grieg Morning Mood (Peer Gynt)
handel_hornpipe.mid Handel Water Music Hornpipe

Modern/Contemporary Pieces

File Composer Piece
river_flows_in_you.mid Yiruma River Flows in You
kiss_the_rain.mid Yiruma Kiss the Rain
nuvole_bianche.mid Ludovico Einaudi Nuvole Bianche
una_mattina.mid Ludovico Einaudi Una Mattina
fly_einaudi.mid Ludovico Einaudi Fly
comptine.mid Yann Tiersen Comptine d’un autre été (Amélie)
time_zimmer.mid Hans Zimmer Time (Inception)
interstellar.mid Hans Zimmer Interstellar Main Theme
libertango.mid Astor Piazzolla Libertango

Video Game Music

File Game Piece
ff_prelude.mid Final Fantasy The Prelude
ff_battle.mid Final Fantasy Battle Scene
zelda_overworld.mid Legend of Zelda Overworld Theme
zelda_gerudo_valley.mid Zelda: Ocarina of Time Gerudo Valley
zelda_kakariko.mid Zelda: Ocarina of Time Kakariko Village
mario_theme.mid Super Mario Main Theme
mario_ground.mid Super Mario Bros Ground Theme
mario_castle.mid Super Mario Castle Theme
minecraft_sweden.mid Minecraft Sweden
skyrim_sons.mid Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Sons of Skyrim
tetris.mid Tetris Type A Theme
last_of_us.mid The Last of Us Main Theme

Sources & Credits

Classical pieces: piano-midi.de by Bernd Krueger
License: CC BY-SA 3.0

Bach: Goldberg Variations and the Well-Tempered Clavier (marked *): typeset by the Mutopia Project (Hajo Dezelski, Stelios Samelis, Davide Castellone, JD Erickson, Sven Reichard, Andrew Hawryluk and others), each piece CC BY-SA 3.0 / 4.0 or public domain. Joined here into one file per prelude and fugue (the Goldberg as the Aria, the 30 variations and the Aria again, 2.5 s apart). The Goldberg comes two ways (tools/bach_goldberg_form.mjs, the last step of the build): bach_goldberg.mid plays each half once and, where a half has two endings (Var. 2, 4, 6, 16 and 25), the second alone; bach_goldberg_repeats.mid plays each half twice, the first ending the first time and the second the second, and the Aria da capo without its repeats. Mutopia’s own MIDI played each half once with both endings. The tempos (tools/bach_goldberg_tempo.mjs) are the Mutopia editors’ metronome marks where they give one (Var. 5, 8, 11, 12, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 26 and 29). The other 18 movements have none, and LilyPond’s MIDI played them at its default of a quarter = 60; each now takes a tempo of its character, chosen for these files and not from an edition: the Aria ♩=56, Var. 1, 10 and 20 ♩=100, 2 ♩=76, 3 and 24 ♩.=50, 4 ♩.=54, 6 ♩.=44, 7 and 27 ♩.=56, 9 ♩=66, 13 ♩=54, 14 ♩=104, 16 ♩=60 and its fugue ♩.=60, 25 (Adagio) ♪=44, 28 ♩=96, 30 ♩=72. Then every movement plays 10 % faster than these marks (SPEED, 1.1), the editors’ too; the silences between movements stay 2.5 s. The movements are retimed before the ornaments are written, so the trills keep their speed. The standalone Aria (bach_goldberg_aria.mid) keeps ♩=60. These are engraved scores, not performances, so they were given dynamics by rule (not by a pianist): each phrase swells and relaxes and the last one tapers, the music gets louder where it climbs and thickens, the top line leads and inner voices recede, long notes carry a little more weight, plus a small seeded variation. Timing is untouched. The Goldberg is then voiced from the score’s actual staff and voice identities by tools/bach_goldberg_voicing.mjs: the Aria’s ornamented melody leads; both voices of each canon project above its independent bass; Variation 10’s fughetta subject entries and Variation 30’s two song lines come forward; lyrical variations 7, 13, 19 and 25 sing above quieter accompaniment. The adjustments are modest (principal lines +4 to +10 MIDI velocity units, accompaniment -2 to -4), preserve the underlying phrase dynamics, and do not clip. Running node midis/tools/bach_goldberg_voicing.mjs starts from the fixed pre-ornament dynamics commit and then regenerates the ornaments, the hands and the two forms, so the Goldberg files are deterministic. The LilyPond sources the tools read are in tools/mutopia/, as Mutopia publishes them (unedited, each with its licence in its header), so a rebuild doesn’t need mutopiaproject.org; the CCARH kern files the Well-Tempered rebuild also reads are fetched from GitHub. Last, tools/bach_hands.mjs writes each note’s hand from the score as a “Right hand” and a “Left hand” track, in the Goldberg and every Well-Tempered file (the score’s upper and lower parts; a source written as one part, WTC I No. 12’s prelude, is left to the player in a third “Piano” track; a realized ornament note takes the hand of the note it decorates), so players that read track names (#032 Pianist) play Bach’s hand crossings and the edition’s division of the inner voices instead of guessing a split. bach_ornaments.mjs ends by calling it. Ornaments are played: Mutopia’s MIDI comes from LilyPond, which leaves out trills, mordents and turns and plays grace notes as 55 ms blips before the beat, so tools/bach_ornaments.mjs reads the LilyPond sources and writes them out after Bach’s own table of ornaments (1720): trills from the upper note at about 12 notes a second, short trills, mordents, turns, trills with turns and mordent endings, appoggiaturas on the beat taking half the note, grace notes on the beat. The Well-Tempered files gain 184 ornaments and 18 groups of grace notes, the Goldberg 185 and 113 (its Aria counted twice); the dynamics stay as they were. In the Well-Tempered files two more sources add signs: the Bach-Gesellschaft edition as encoded by CCARH (humdrum-tools/bach-wtc, 22 signs Mutopia lacks, 14 of them in the B minor prelude, plus the interval of every trill and mordent it marks), and the rule that a fugue subject’s ornament is played on every entry (20 more, in the C major fugue of Book II and the B minor fugue of Book I). Last, a trill at the main cadences, where players add one though no edition prints it (C. P. E. Bach’s rule: the note before a cadence’s close): the final cadence of each prelude and fugue, and perfect authentic cadences on a downbeat away from Bach’s own signs, on the note of the top line over the dominant that resolves to the tonic, 21 in all; --no-cadences leaves them out. A chord the score marks to be spread (\arpeggio, the wavy line) is rolled from the bottom up, 30-70 ms a note, each held to its end. How each is played, and how to rerun it, is at the top of the script.

Bach, MAESTRO performances (marked ‡): for comparison with the engraved files above, the same preludes and fugues as played at the International Piano-e-Competition on a Yamaha Disklavier, from the MAESTRO dataset v3.0.0 (Google Magenta), one performance per piece (the year is in each title; MAESTRO doesn’t name the pianists). Not in MAESTRO: WTC I No.16 (BWV 861) and No.24 (BWV 869), and the Goldberg Variations. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, non-commercial only, like the Pletnev file below.

Tchaikovsky / Pletnev, Andante maestoso (marked †): from the MAESTRO dataset v3.0.0 (Google Magenta), a performance recorded on a Yamaha Disklavier at the 2008 International Piano-e-Competition (2008/MIDI-Unprocessed_02_R2_2008_01-05_ORIG_MID--AUDIO_02_R2_2008_wav--5.midi, 4:33). License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, non-commercial only, unlike the rest of the collection. Pletnev’s arrangement (1978) is itself still under copyright.

Symphonic works: mfiles.co.uk
Classical MIDI files for educational use.

Modern & Game pieces: midifind.com
Free MIDI files for educational and creative use.

One-Minute Piano Discoveries:

The season slate, visual treatments, descriptions, source decisions and running candidate list are in pianist/shorts/README.md.

Usage

These files are provided for educational and personal use. Please check individual source licenses for commercial use.