Repertoire choices

[sarahlein]

What repertoire choices will you give to a student who enjoys playing "Le coucou" by Daquin?
Any ideas, suggestions anyone?

[ihatepop]

What repertoire choices will you give to a student who enjoys playing "Le coucou" by Daquin?
Any ideas, suggestions anyone?

'The girl with the flaxen hair' by Debussy.

ihatepop

[sarahlein]

'The girl with the flaxen hair' by Debussy.

To be honest, I haven't thought of that. Perhaps I should include it in his options.

Any more ideas?
Come on all you teachers-come on m1469, jpianoflorida, lostinidlewonder... and all you others. Please??

[lagin]

Are you after similar style, or similar grade level?  Something that is both of those is Beethoven's sonata in G major, the first movement.  I forget the number, but it's about 5 pages long and starts with the right hand jumping around in octaves for the pick up bar and landing on the downbeat of bar one.  Then it takes off running in eighth notes.  It has a fun, relatively "easy" hand crossing middle part that looks impressive.  It's very upbeat and fun like le coucou.

[ilikepie]

Some sonatas at that level:
Sonata K 330 by Mozart
Sonata K 545 by Mozart (yey?)
Sonata "Pastorale" K.9; :L. 413 by Scarlatti
I can't think of any fun pieces at that level at the moment >_>

[sarahlein]

Are you after similar style, or similar grade level?

I'm open to anything. Make it a bit more challenging wouldn't hurt -I like aiming forward 
As far as style is concerned, I like to give him several different choices so yes other styles would be welcomed.

Something that is both of those is Beethoven's sonata in G major, the first movement.  I forget the number, but it's about 5 pages long and starts with the right hand jumping around in octaves for the pick up bar and landing on the downbeat of bar one.  Then it takes off running in eighth notes.  It has a fun, relatively "easy" hand crossing middle part that looks impressive.  It's very upbeat and fun like le coucou.

Thanks, I'll look into that!

Some sonatas at that level:
Sonata K 330 by Mozart
Sonata K 545 by Mozart (yey?)
Sonata "Pastorale" K.9; :L. 413 by Scarlatti
I can't think of any fun pieces at that level at the moment >_>

Thanks ilikepie. Funny enough I had him listen to the Mozart K545 the other day and he said he didn't like it.

Keep your suggestions coming you guys-I appreciate this very much!

[pianowelsh]

Have they learnt to pedal?? How about the first mvt of the Moonlight sonata?? they will love you forever if you teach them that! you could consider some of the easier Chopin preludes. There is also a very nice posthum waltz of (spuriously) Chopin which is effective and not so hard (would stretch!). Some of the easier lyric pieces of Grieg are good. Of course Schumann and Tchaikovsky album for the young - theres tons of material in those. kabalevsky study a minor (whizzy one),  Bach Anna-magdalena book ..again tons of amterial at the level in there, easier beethoven bagatelles, Mozart smaller pieces k5 is very effective (good for rhythmic gear changing), some of the easier vision fugative if you wanted something more starkly modernist. Thats all for now but theres LOADS!

[sarahlein]

Thank you all.
If anyone else has more ideas please let me know

[sarahlein]

kabalevsky study a minor (whizzy one)

pianowelsh, can you help me with this a bit. I don't seem to find it. I've checked here https://www.pianopedia.com/cp_185_w_kabalevsky.aspx but without an opus # I'm a bit lost.