Beethoven Liszt Symphony No.5

[justinjalandoni]

I was just wondering if you guys think I'm already good enough to play the first movement of Beethoven's symphony no 5 on piano. Some of the pieces i can play well are:

1. Mozart k330 - 1st movment
2. Mozart - Rondo Alla Turca
3. Mozart - k545 - 3rd movement
5. Bach- Prelude1 from wtc book 1
6.bach Inventions - 8 and 2 (learning 1 right now)
7. Beethoven - Fur Elise
8. Satie - Gymnopedie 3

I asked this cause i tried to play the finale of symphony no 7 before and i couldnt even get past the first few bars. Is the 5th symphony technically easier than the 7th?

[iroveashe]

It is easier than the 7th, but it uses lots of full chords played fast, something none of the pieces you listed has, so you could try to deal with that first

[joao975ca]

if you study, everything is possible. And everytime you find a technical difficulty, stop, make the "correspondant" Hanon exercise, and then study the passage. As you evolve, you won't need Hanon's exercises anymore, but if you want to master your technique, i suggest you to take 10-15 of your day, every day, making Hanon exercises. Trust me.

[pianist1976]

I think that it's a very abrupt jump passing from Für Elise to a full orchestra Liszt transcription. Liszt's transcriptions have many successions of chords, jumps, double notes and octaves, even in non showy ones such as the Beethoven symphonies.

I think that you need some background in that kind of technique which, taking a look to your repertoire, you hanven't  yet. Don't be impatient, wait some years, expand your repertoire. The short way never was a straight way. You could be hurt (the arm, back, wrist and hand injuries aren't a joke at all   )