Pieces per year

[ladychopin]

How many peices do you learn in a year?

[j_menz]

Depends on the year and the pieces. I don't have a target or quota.

[49410enrique]

Depends on the year and the pieces. I don't have a target or quota.

agreed.

as for me i don't have a margaret


or a yoda

[ajspiano]

Depends on the year and the pieces.

I feel that a reasonable range may be...

3 or 4..

or

3-400.

[brogers70]

I aim at the Bernhard standard, 20/year, counting Sonata or Suite movements as separate pieces, and including a few that are not a stretch technically. That means starting a new piece every 2-3 weeks, working on 4-5 pieces simultaneously and allowing 8-15 weeks to get a piece into good shape. I'm just an amateur (a very enthusiastic one, but an amateur) so if you're aiming at conservatory entrance exams or something, you might do things quite differently.

[lloyd_cdb]

When I had a normal amount of time to play (1-2hrs), I would work on 3-4 pieces at a time.  1 or 2 I could learn in a few weeks, 1 that I expected would take 1-3 months, and 1 that I expected to work on for half the year.  I'd often revisit the short ones though, so probably about 30-40 pieces. Only about 5 or 6 I'd actually play for anyone outside of the practice room, though.  The rest of them were usually for either simple sight reading improvement or a short piece addressing an easier version of a technical aspect I was struggling with in my difficult pieces.

[pianoman53]

This year is insane for me... I think I'm up to 40 separate movement. Usually I did maybe 15 separate though (like 3 studies, 2 sonatas, couple of other pieces,and some Bach)

[patrickd]

Depends on my school work load, so this year about 7 pieces so far.

[richard black]

Can't really comment on number of pieces, since the pieces in my repertoire vary between about 20 seconds (the song 'I am Rose' by Ned Rorem is, IIRC, the shortest I've played) and over 4 hours (some of Wagner's operas), but at a very rough estimate my average, since I began playing the piano all those years ago, is about 10 hours of new repertoire a year. Now that my repertoire is the size it is, the rate of learning new pieces is naturally declining because I more often get asked to play things I've done before.

As I've said before on this forum, accompanists have the most fun!

[asuhayda]

I probably learn about 6-7 pieces in a year.  But, that replaces my old repertoire.  I don't have much of a faculty for keeping 20 pieces in my head at once.