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Topic: level of difficulty- where can you find a rating for a classical piece?  (Read 104363 times)

Offline caroline1200

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I am trying to find a site online where I can see how a piece is evaluated by level of difficulty (1-10 or some standard system)

Offline stevebob

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What passes you ain't for you.

Offline caroline1200

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Thanks. The link in that discussion was good but fairly limited.  I have done some searches but can't seem to find a level of difficulty rating for Chopin's pieces, specifically.  I am open to any other suggestions.

Offline monkeydudexd

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I believe there is such rankings on this site:
https://www.pianostreet.com/piano_music/download_1/sheet_1.php
or go to 'piano music' and click on 'complete list'
Beethoven Sonata Op. 13 'Pathetique'
Beethoven Sonata Op. 31 No. 2 'Tempest'
Beethoven Sonata Op. 90
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 17
Bach Italian Concerto

Offline stevebob

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What passes you ain't for you.

Offline caroline1200

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PERFECT!  Thank you...very comprehensive list!   :)
https://www.pianostreet.com/piano_music/download_1/sheet_1.php

Offline ch101

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Pieces I am working on
Complete Chopin mazurkas
Pictures at an Exhibition
Beethoven Pathetique sonata
Schumann Papilions

Offline pianisturban

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I have been searching for this too.  :D

Offline rachmaninoff_forever

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Too bad almost every piece is grade 8 or 8+.

For example, Chopin's Revolutionary etude was given an 8+ as well as Gaspard de la Nuit.  Gaspard de la Nuit is WAY harder than the Revolutionary etude.

They should be a little more sensitive with the grading scale.  maybe from 1 to 100?

Live large, die large.  Leave a giant coffin.

Offline ajspiano

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https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=9159.0

look through there - there's some stuff for chopin..  you'll need to replace forum.net with street.com in the links though.

Offline ellie_123

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There is a website called Graded Piano Repertoire that grades piano solos from level 1-12 and compares different grading systems. It is a piano repertoire guide that also provides a lot of other information on the pieces in the database:

https://www.gradedpianorepertoire.com/

Offline iratior

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Thanks, monkeydudexd, for showing where there is a listing.  On the basis of it, I've just discovered that I've been doing a multititude of grade 8 or 8+ pieces, and it's getting me really angry with certain people in this forum who impugned my qualifications to comment on a lot of the issues here.

Offline ignaceii

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Pretty useless, as already been mentioned. Not enough grade nuances.
Prokofievs 3de concert 8+ together with a whole lot other 8+s, come on.
And afterwards, piano pieces cannot be graded. Remember what Shnabel said on Mozarts sonates:
'Too easy for beginners.....' you know.

Offline kevin69

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https://www.sheetmusicplus.com
assign difficulty grades to most of the music they sell.

Offline ianw

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You can also find a bunch of gradings based on examination syllabuses at www.pianosyllabus.com.
For more information about this topic, click search below!

Piano Street Magazine:
New Piano Piece by Chopin Discovered – Free Piano Score

A previously unknown manuscript by Frédéric Chopin has been discovered at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum. The handwritten score is titled “Valse” and consists of 24 bars of music in the key of A minor and is considered a major discovery in the wold of classical piano music. Read more
 

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