Need Help With Classical Music

[ivoryplayer4him]

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I have been playing the piano for about 10 years now.  The problem is that for about 5 of those years, i have been on my own learning new stuff and teaching my self stuff.  I play the piano for a church (as i have been doing for quite some time) but my teacher never really taught me "Classical Music".  I learned how to play Moonlight Sonata the first movement by myself, and strangly enough i can play that perfectly, but i cant play Fur Elise very well!!  I'm working on the 2nd movement to Moonlight Sonata right now.  I need to find some "Fairly" easy Classical music that i will not grow frustrated with that i can teach myself.  like Moonlight Sonata.  PLEASE HELP!

[JK]

Try some Haydn sonatas, these are very good fun and quite a lot of them are not too technically difficult!

[Antnee]

There are many pieces out there for you...

Hmm...

What you should really do is take a while and try to get the big picture of classical music by listening to many recordings of different pieces by different composers. It will give you a feel for what the repetoire for piano is like and how difficult it can get. Once you are more knowledgeable about the repetiore you can decide for yourself what you are ready for and what you can set as your goals, because you always need a goal.

For a few suggestions, how about One of the Chopin nocturnes. They are beautiful. Or some of his waltzes. An easier schubert piece maybe. Like one of his moment musicaux.  Rachmaninoff's prelude in C# too.

Once again, you need to try and listen around for pieces you will want to play someday. Or ones you want to learn now.

-Tony-

[bernhard]

There are more pieces written for the piano than for all other instruments combined. Moreover most of these pieces are of moderate difficulty. The virtuoso repertory is actually very small. This means that a list of moderately easy pieces for piano would take several hundred pages. So you must somehow limit your question. Can you par it down to a composer (or a few composers)? A historical period? A musical style? In the mean time, have a look at these threads which have several suggestions of intermediate repertory:


https://www.pianoforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=repo;action=display;num=1073648526
(Shostakovitch preludes op. 34)

https://www.pianoforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=repo;action=display;num=1072700505
(Haunting nocturnal pieces)

https://www.pianoforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=repo;action=display;num=1077534930
(Barber)

https://www.pianoforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=repo;action=display;num=1077145772
(Scarlatti sonatas)

https://www.pianoforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=repo;action=display;num=1077317950
(uncommon works)


https://www.pianoforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=teac;action=display;num=1075165020
(Easiest piano pieces)

https://www.pianoforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=teac;action=display;num=1061212155
(Grieg)

https://www.pianoforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=stud;action=display;num=1083221471
(sonatas)

https://www.pianoforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=stud;action=display;num=1077907916
(Scarlatti & Prokofiev)

Best wishes
Bernhard.