Complete Sonata

[kyeng1001]

There is a requirement from a school of music, stating that students must audition on the following:

1. A Prelude and Fugue by J. S. Bach from the Well-Tempered Clavier
2. A complete sonata by Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, or Beethoven, excluding Beethoven opus 49 & 79
3. A complete work of a 19th-century composer
4. One piece or single movement by a contemporary composer
5. An etude of virtuosity at the level of those by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Debussy, Bartok, Stravinsky or Ligeti

On number 2, it says a complete sonata. Please tell me it means any 1 of the movements from 1 sonata. Having to memorize everything above is crazy! Help!

[sharon_f]

From the way it's worded, it sounds like all 2/3/4 movements depending on what sonata you chose.

[floydcramerfan]

Just curious, but how come there are two threads for this topic?

[quantum]

Agreed.  It appears a all movements of a selected sonata are required. 

BTW, this list of repertoire requirements is quite typical of university auditions.  You probably wont have to play all of it for the audition, but you will have to have studied all of it.  For example: they may ask you to pick any piece to start off.  After that they may pick and choose movements or even particular sections of pieces for you to play.  Say you picked Ballad No.1, they may just ask for the coda.  The movement #2 from classical sonata.  Variation 8, from whatever piece. 

Prepare yourself by being able to start pieces in the middle somewhere.  Look for logical sectional breaks where you could start playing.   

[kyeng1001]

Agreed.  It appears a all movements of a selected sonata are required. 

BTW, this list of repertoire requirements is quite typical of university auditions.  You probably wont have to play all of it for the audition, but you will have to have studied all of it.  For example: they may ask you to pick any piece to start off.  After that they may pick and choose movements or even particular sections of pieces for you to play.  Say you picked Ballad No.1, they may just ask for the coda.  The movement #2 from classical sonata.  Variation 8, from whatever piece. 

Prepare yourself by being able to start pieces in the middle somewhere.  Look for logical sectional breaks where you could start playing.   

Ooh I see. Yeah I was wondering, having to play all those would make 1 audition last for quite some time. Thank you