waldstein 3rd mvt

[hadizaatiti]

Hello, im recentely starting the waldstein 3rd mouvement, still finishing up the first page but was wondering if this piece requires any special technics and if someone can guide me to some sort of an analyse for this piece and all the technics required to be able to play it well. i think i saw a 9 year old japense girl playing it and did an amasing job! as for my background, i  usualy play things i like and didnt have a proper piano education but i learned the basics and a few technics that were required to  play things i heard and wanted to play.
Thx!

[scott13]

Hello, im recentely starting the waldstein 3rd mouvement, still finishing up the first page but was wondering if this piece requires any special technics and if someone can guide me to some sort of an analyse for this piece and all the technics required to be able to play it well. i think i saw a 9 year old japense girl playing it and did an amasing job! as for my background, i  usualy play things i like and didnt have a proper piano education but i learned the basics and a few technics that were required to  play things i heard and wanted to play.
Thx!

Any reason you chose this Sonata to learn? It is not one of Beethoven's easier or more forgiving sonatas and would most likely make it to my personal list of the hardest 5.

Also i very much doubt a 9 year old girl could do this piece justice musically. Technically she might well have the notes right, but that is only the beginning to getting beethoven to sound right.

[mcdiddy1]

That is a tough piece.

In the beginning, there is some controversy about the pedaling of beginning sections. The pianos in Beethoven time did not have as much resonance from the strings as modern pianos so the damper pedal could be held much longer without getting blurry. I used the upper 1/3 of the pedal and held it as long as I could to create that atmosphere rather than changing it on the melody notes .



Depending on the edition/editor there is a glissando octave section that some people have trouble with. You may choose to play as a simple G scale in both hands. It you have a piano that has a good action, then you could get away with doing a sliding glissando by curving the thumb inwards and sliding down the keys carefully with your forearms.

There is also a sections when the melody transitions to different keys and has some trills happening everywhere. Line up the notes of the melody with specific notes of the trill particularly the note the trill starts with.

Practice the page with the challenging arpeggios first. I can't remember the page number but it is near the end and has a tempo change.

I don't think you should play this sonata unless your technique is solid, and have a good teacher helping you out with nuances.
Does this 9 year old have a youtube video of her playing this piece. I would love to see it.