The Three Pieces for piano solo (1919) are among the very earliest extant pieces by Dmitri Shostakovich. They were composed when he was 12 or 13 years old and a piano student of Alexandra Roznova at the Petrograd Conservatory. Although Shostakovich soon forgot the works, Roznova keep the Three Pieces until her death in 1942.

At the time of composition, the young Shostakovich had already tackled both books of Bach's Well Tempered Klavier, and the Three Pieces demonstrate a thorough knowledge of how to write for the keyboard. But their extreme structural simplicity gives away the composer's youth very clearly (Shostakovich had yet to take a single composition lesson). The first of the three, Minuet, is a mere 24 bars long and without a contrasting trio. The second piece, Prelude, is in binary form and has an attractive melody. The third piece, Intermezzo, consists of 16 bars with a repeat sign and then breaks off seven bars later, leaving the piece unfinished. The Three Pieces show no signs of the mature composer's voice, and are of interest mainly to scholars.

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