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Offline jorley

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on: March 19, 2012, 11:35:30 PM
Hi! Could you guys give me an accurate ranking over the difficulty of Chopin's Nocturnes from easiest to hardest? And also, which preludes by Chopin would you put at the same difficulty as the hardest Nocturne, which ever one that is?

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Offline slobone

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Re: Ranking
Reply #1 on: March 20, 2012, 03:55:37 AM
The Henle (German music publisher) website has a complete ranking, based on a scale of 1 to 9 here:

https://www.henle.de/en/detail/index.html?Title=Nocturnes_233#content

Most of them are from 5 (medium difficulty) to 7 (advanced).
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Offline j_menz

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Re: Ranking
Reply #2 on: March 20, 2012, 04:10:49 AM
Or you could look at the list on this site:

https://www.pianostreet.com/chopin-sheet-music/nocturnes/

You will note that this is completely different to the Henle one.

There is no such thing as an accurate ranking. It depends on what you can do and what you can't.
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Offline werq34ac

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Re: Ranking
Reply #3 on: March 20, 2012, 11:57:30 PM
I feel like the Henle ones are better though. Sometimes pianostreet rankings are ridiculous.
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