Christmas piano sheet music
Easy Christmas piano songs and carols, from first-week easy to full four-part harmony. 38 pieces, easiest first.
Nothing makes a room feel like Christmas quite like a song on the piano. Most of these come in an easy version, with the tune in your right hand and a few friendly notes in your left, and many have a fuller version a few levels up for when you are ready.
Brand new to the piano? Start with Jingle Bells (Easy), which never leaves five white keys. Pick one this week and you could be playing it for the family by the time the tree goes up, with Auld Lang Syne ready for New Year's Eve.
Beginner Levels 1 to 3
- Jingle Bells (Easy) New0:34James Lord PierpontAlso at Level 4
Away in a Manger (Easy) New0:33James R. MurrayAlso at Levels 3 and 5
O Come, All Ye Faithful (Easy) New0:55John F. WadeAlso at Levels 3 and 5
Good King Wenceslas (Easy) New0:46TraditionalAlso at Levels 4 and 5
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Easy) New0:52Traditional EnglishAlso at Levels 3 and 5
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Easy) New0:55Felix Mendelssohn- O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Easy) New0:52Traditional French
Angels from the Realms of Glory (Easy) New0:33Henry Smart- Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming (Easy) New0:44Traditional German
Silent Night (Easy) New0:33Franz Xaver Gruber
In the Bleak Midwinter (Easy) New0:39Gustav HolstAlso at Levels 3 and 5
Ihr Kinderlein, kommet (O Come, Little Children) (Easy) New0:21Johann Abraham Peter Schulz- Auld Lang Syne (Easy) New0:44Traditional Scottish
For the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve.
- Carol of the Bells (Shchedryk) (Easy) New0:34Mykola Leontovych
The Ukrainian Shchedryk tune the famous carol is built on.
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Easy) New0:24Traditional English
- Deck the Halls (Easy) New0:36Traditional Welsh
Away in a Manger (Next Step) New0:31James R. MurrayAlso at Levels 1 and 5
O Come, All Ye Faithful (Next Step) New0:49John F. WadeAlso at Levels 1 and 5
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Next Step) New0:39Traditional EnglishAlso at Levels 1 and 5
Joy to the World (Easy) New0:24Lowell Mason, after George Frideric Handel
The First Noel (Easy) New0:45Traditional EnglishAlso at Level 5
Angels We Have Heard on High (Easy) New0:53Traditional FrenchAlso at Level 5
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (Easy) New0:30Richard S. WillisAlso at Level 5
O Little Town of Bethlehem (Easy) New0:40Lewis H. Redner
In the Bleak Midwinter (Next Step) New0:45Gustav HolstAlso at Levels 2 and 5- O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree) (Easy) New0:26Traditional German
Intermediate Levels 4 to 6
- Jingle Bells New1:04James Lord PierpontAlso at Level 1
- O Holy Night (Easy) New2:38Adolphe Adam
Good King Wenceslas (Next Step) New0:39TraditionalAlso at Levels 1 and 5
Hallelujah Chorus, from Messiah (Easy) New0:30George Frideric Handel
Away in a Manger New0:29James R. MurrayAlso at Levels 1 and 3
O Come, All Ye Faithful New0:41John F. WadeAlso at Levels 1 and 3
Good King Wenceslas New0:29TraditionalAlso at Levels 1 and 4
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen New0:30Traditional EnglishAlso at Levels 1 and 3
The First Noel New0:44Traditional EnglishAlso at Level 3
Angels We Have Heard on High New0:39Traditional FrenchAlso at Level 3
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear New0:51Richard S. WillisAlso at Level 3
In the Bleak Midwinter New0:38Gustav HolstAlso at Levels 2 and 3
Picture credits
- The Nativity. Martin Schongauer, c. 1480–1490, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0.
- The Nativity. Albrecht Dürer, 1504, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0.
- Good King Wenceslas, illustrated by Arthur Gaskin. Arthur Gaskin, 1904 edition. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
- The Adoration of the Shepherds, with the lamp. Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1654, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0.
- Felix Mendelssohn. Thomas Howell Jones, after Theodor Hildebrandt, 1842–1870, British Museum. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
- The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds. Rembrandt van Rijn, 1634, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0.
- Stille Nacht, in Franz Xaver Gruber's hand. Franz Xaver Gruber, c. 1860. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
- Gustav Holst. Millicent Lisle Woodforde, 1910, National Portrait Gallery, London. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
- Johann Abraham Peter Schulz. Friedrich Jügel, 1794. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
- George Frideric Handel. Thomas Hudson, before 1779. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.