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Scarlatti sonatas. Have a look here:

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2339.msg20064.html#msg20064
(Scarlatti favourite sonatas – almost 200 sonatas graded and commented).

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,10129.msg103508.html#msg103508
(Hanon x Czerny – 192 Scarlatti sonatas graded in order of difficulty)

J. S. Bach – 2 part Inventions & Sinfonias. Have a look here:

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4736.0.html
(invention 4 – comparison with chess game and Escher)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,1911.msg14853.html#msg14853
(Invention no. 8 – relative difficulty of the inventions – progressive order of Bach’s keyboard works – CD  recommendations)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2714.msg23310.html#msg23310
(how to teach invention no. 1)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,3187.msg27993.html#msg27993
(order of difficulty of the inventions)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4736.msg44774.html#msg44774
(how to play inventions – Escher picture – Example: Invention 4 – Analogy with the game of chess)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,5055.msg48120.html#msg48120
(fingering for sinfonia no. 9)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,5143.msg49995.html#msg49995
(Inventions and sinfonias: Bach’s pedagogical order of difficulty)

https://www.pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,7857.msg78912.html#msg78912
(ornamentation and inventions – general discussion on ornamentation)

https://www.pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,7246.msg72307.html#msg72307
(how to outline invention 14)

https://www.pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,8015.msg81149.html#msg81149
(ornamentation of invention no. 1)

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,10304.msg106137.html#msg106137
(Analysis of invention no. 10)

Beethoven Sonatas. Have a look here:

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2748.msg23723.html#msg23723
(progressive difficulty list for all 32 sonatas)

Chopin Etudes. Have a look here:

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,1927.msg16974.html#msg16974
(Etude op. 10 no. 1 – Cortot edition – Meiting and Hmoll discuss tendonitis)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2074.msg17096.html#msg17096
(different editions)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2678.msg23656.html#msg23656
(Suggestions for different editions)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,3197.msg28098.html#msg28098
(Op. 25 no. 1 –  grades for all etudes and nocturnes)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,3233.msg28792.html#msg28792
(op. 10 no. 2 – Robert Henry excellent post)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,3916.msg35679.html#msg35679
(preparatory pieces for Revolutionary)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4957.msg47444.html#msg47444
(Op. 10  no. 9 – discussion of fingering and description of movement)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,5090.msg48850.html#msg48850
(How to  figure out fingering for Op. 25 no. 11)

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/board,1/topic,10974.10.html#msg115011
(detailed explanation of polirhythms on Op. 25 no. 1)


Any piece of music that you would love to play and that is presently challenging (not difficult or impossible) for you to play.

Best wishes,
Bernhard.