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Topic: Intense/ dramatic pieces in minor keys  (Read 3807 times)

Offline recnepspencer

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Intense/ dramatic pieces in minor keys
on: April 06, 2016, 05:41:50 AM
What are some good dramatic pieces in the minor keys? I love piano pieces of that style (winter wind, revolutionary, stuff like that (although it doesn't need to be that fast))
Please don't list any pieces by the composers Chopin, Liszt, and Beethoven, as I am already quite familiar with them

And also please do not make any rude comments to me. I eat my words and will admit I'm not yet an advanced pianist.
Recently learned:
Beethoven- sonata 32, op111, I
Chopin- sonata 2, scherzo
Liszt-Etude 4, S.136
Rachmaninoff-Prelude C Sharp Minor
Learning:
Liszt-Transcendeal Etude 2
Chopin-Etude op25 no 11

Offline adodd81802

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Re: Intense/ dramatic pieces in minor keys
Reply #1 on: April 06, 2016, 08:29:17 AM
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Re: Intense/ dramatic pieces in minor keys
Reply #2 on: April 06, 2016, 10:11:29 AM

Offline xdjuicebox

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Re: Intense/ dramatic pieces in minor keys
Reply #3 on: April 14, 2016, 04:51:05 AM
My personal favorites:

Scriabin Etude Op. 8 No. 12 in D# minor
Rachmaninoff Op. 3 No. 2 in C# minor
Rachmaninoff Op. 23 No. 5 in G minor
Rachmaninoff Concerti 2,3 in C minor and D minor respectively
Rachmaninoff Etude in D minor (Op. 33 No. 4, well it was technically No. 5 but he didn't publish No. 4 so they call it No. 4)
Prokofiev Sonatas 2, 6, 7 (idk if they fall under the category of "intense," but yeah I'll let you be the judge of that haha)
I am trying to become Franz Liszt. Trying. And failing.
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