is it true?

[inkie]

a week ago i performed the 3th movement of pathetique. A man was talking to me how he liked it. And that he was playing the piano also. He said to me that i must play the
first movement of appassionata. The first thing i thought it is to difficult. But he said that if i can play pathetique i can also play (maybe with a little bit more practising) first movement of appassionata. Can I? of is it waste of time to begin practising on the appassionata.

Thanks for youre help.

[maxy]

I say: no, it's not true.


But hey, you won't really know till you try it! 

[Kassaa]

I have done the pathetique and I am now doing the Appassionata. I don't think you should do the Appassionata after doing the pathetique. The Appassionata is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more difficult, the first movement is technically awkward and it's extremely difficult to keep everything together, without letting it sound boring. You have to be able to play extremely soft and the moment after extremely loud without sounding ugly, the repeated notes are bitches and well, I think I made my point clear.

[pianowolfi]

I have done the pathetique and I am now doing the Appassionata. I don't think you should do the Appassionata after doing the pathetique. The Appassionata is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more difficult, the first movement is technically awkward and it's extremely difficult to keep everything together, without letting it sound boring. You have to be able to play extremely soft and the moment after extremely loud without sounding ugly, the repeated notes are bitches and well, I think I made my point clear.

Seconded. Appassionata is a pregnant dog. First try op. 2,1 and maybe 31,2.

[_____]

The only real problem I had with the first movement of Op. 57 were the arpeggios just before the coda, everything else was relatively fine.

The real pregnant dog is the third movement, IMO.