Study in C major, Op. 190 No. 1

Louis Köhler (1,820–1,886)

Key: C major
Style: Studies
Level: Foundation
Roughly: RCM Prep A–B · ABRSM Initial · Trinity Initial
Lesson: F.3 Count four beats
Musicianship: F.3 Four beats
Focus: Whole notes with both hands an octave apart

What its lesson teaches

F.3 Count four beats

Play Köhler’s First Study, Op. 190 No. 1, in whole notes. Count four beats through each whole note and through the rest in the last bar, and feel where each bar begins.

Ideas: Time signatures: simple time
Strong and weak beats
Rests
Slow practice
Theory cards: Time signatures: 4/4 and 3/4
Rests
Slow practice
Technique: C major five-finger pattern, hands separately

Edition and licence

Score: Musalea, from a public-domain edition · public domain

Die allerleichtesten Übungsstücke, Op. 190, No. 1

Edition: A. Gutheil, Moscow, n.d. (ca. 1880), plate A.1714 G

Published: 1880

Source: https://archive.org/download/imslp-allerleichtesten-bungsstcke-op190-khler-louis/PMLP215814-Kohler_opus_190.pdf

Public-domain source edition(s).

Transcribed from IMSLP #105780 (A. Gutheil, Moscow, ca. 1880, plate A. 1714 G) and checked bar by bar, 2026-10-28.

Adapted by Musalea: transcribed from the print (the machine reading did not match it) and prepared for interactive practice.

The other lesson pieces of Foundation

Home Light, written for the Method
Vorschule im Klavierspiel, Op. 101 No. 10 — Kinderlied (Child’s Song), Ferdinand Beyer
Aller Anfang ist schwer (Every Beginning Is Difficult), Handstücke I No. 1, Daniel Gottlob Türk
The First Lessons, Op. 117 No. 3, Cornelius Gurlitt
The First Lessons, Op. 117 No. 4, Cornelius Gurlitt
Raindrops and Ribbons, written for the Method
Study in C major, Op. 190 No. 2, Louis Köhler
Vorschule im Klavierspiel, Op. 101 No. 11 — Der Kuckuck (The Cuckoo), Ferdinand Beyer
The First Lessons, Op. 117 No. 1, Cornelius Gurlitt
A Second Voice, written for the Method
Three Steps, written for the Method
Long Shadows, written for the Method

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