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Twenty-six seconds of MIDI, and very likely the first taste of speed for millions of pianists. The Arabesque is the second of Burgmüller's 25 easy studies written for the parlors of 19th-century Paris, and it has outlived every method book since: five fingers climbing in sixteenth notes, a mischievous air, an ending that snaps shut.
Its teaching mission is crystal clear: five-note groups in a fixed hand position, right hand first, then left. No awkward jumps, no tangled chords, just pure finger agility inside the hand. It's short, gratifying, memorized in two days. The speed, that part grows over weeks, and watching it grow is the whole pleasure.
Arabesque Op. 100 No. 2: the first notes
Right hand, in letter names (C4 = middle C): A4 B4 C5 B4 A4 A4 B4 C5 D5 E5 D5 E5 F5 G5 A5 A5 B5 C6 D6 E6 E5 E5 F5 D5… The rest scrolls in the preview above, with the fingering, and the sheet music PDF has the whole piece.
Play Arabesque Op. 100 No. 2 on the virtual piano
Here are the Arabesque Op. 100 No. 2 virtual piano notes, in computer keyboard letters: the first 8 bars of the melody. One key per note, read left to right; dark keys are the sharps, and a thin line marks each bar. The melody sounds an octave lower than written, so it fits on the keyboard.
Letters for a QWERTY keyboardYour keyboard: 30 notes
NMQMNNMQWE
WERTYYUIOP
EERWW
TWEQE
▶ Play on the virtual pianoThe piano opens with this piece loaded: the key to play lights up and waits for you.
What you'll be working on
Five-note sixteenth groups, fingers close to the keys
The hand-to-hand relay in the middle section
Frank chord staccatos between the runs
The final crescendo and its little octave descent
Playing Arabesque Op. 100 No. 2 on piano with Pianovera
A perfect fit for Pianovera's A·B loop: the entire piece fits inside one. Play it in Wait mode on day one, Scroll at 70% on day two, and watch your cruising speed rise on the progress curve.
Open Arabesque Op. 100 No. 2 in Pianovera: the notes fall toward an 88-key virtual piano keyboard, each hand gets its color, and Wait mode is there if you're starting out. On a PC, it's falling notes piano software for Windows, with video export up to 4K.
Free, with no time limit and no ads: 30 pieces (10 in full, 20 in a simplified version), the first 10 lessons and 10 minutes of 3D hands (then 15 seconds per piece). Premium opens all 651 pieces.
Download the Arabesque Op. 100 No. 2 MIDI and sheet music
The work itself is in the public domain, and this MIDI engraving was placed in the public domain by its typesetter on the Mutopia Project. Use it freely, videos included.
About this piece
Is Arabesque Op. 100 No. 2 hard to play on piano?
We rate it beginner: 283 notes over 0:26, spanning A2 to A6. The first thing to work on: five-note sixteenth groups, fingers close to the keys.
Where can I get the sheet music for Arabesque Op. 100 No. 2?
Right on this page: the "View the sheet music" button opens the PDF (65 KB), engraved by the Mutopia Project from the same source as the MIDI file, Public domain license. View it, print it, keep it.
Is the Arabesque Op. 100 No. 2 MIDI file really free?
Yes. Friedrich Burgmüller died more than 70 years ago, so the work (1852) is public domain. This MIDI engraving is public domain too: download it and use it freely, videos included.
