I need help choosing pieces for my repertoire.

[hlbessinger]

I am a fifteen year old piano student who has been taking four years and I would like some advice on what pieces I should try tackling next. I can play the Bach inventions and the first prelude and fugue. I can also play some of the simpler Chopin waltzes and preludes and the simpler Beethoven sonatas. Any advice on what I should undertake next would be appreciated.

[slobone]

Schumann, Album for the Young
Bartok, Mikrokosmos (maybe volume 2?)
Kuhlau, Sonatinas
Mendelssohn, Songs Without Words

All are pieces by "real" composers, relatively short and not too hard.

[teresa_b]

Mozart Sonata --G Major (K283) or B-flat Major (K570)

Debussy-- Arabesque no.1,  Ballade, Preludes from book 1 (Sunken Cathedral, Maid with Flaxen Hair), Suite Bergamasque, Golliwog's Cakewalk

Chopin Nocturnes--they are lovely and some are within your range.  Polonaise no 1 (?Op 26) may be a challenge, but accessible.

Have fun!
Teresa

[welltemperedpianist]

Definitely take a look at a few Mozart Sonatas, like 332 (F major) or 330 (C major).

A few of the first Chopin Nocturnes are beautiful too, like Opus 9, No. 1 and 2.

You might want to take a look at relatively fun to play and interesting 20th century pieces, like Khachaturian toccatta or Debussy's Le Petit Negre.