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Offline irismanu

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study or not
on: February 16, 2013, 11:25:50 PM
hey guys!
i need your opinion about something:
i am going to turn 18 this summer and i have had piano lessons since I was 7 till last year (teacher failed and dismotivated me). so i had a break of half a year. now i have some new projects an i am thinking about future.
What shell i do??

at the moment i study: mephisto from liszt. romanze from dvorak and i repeade some easiers like parts of the mondschein 3nd or alla turka for my speed i need for liszt.

there are 2 opionions: turn back to another teacher in the music school and stay there or prepare for the university 2014 (with or without a teacher donīt know eighter)

I would be grateful if you have some helpful tips to decide.
greetings

Offline chopin2015

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Re: study or not
Reply #1 on: February 17, 2013, 03:12:15 AM
Def do it with a teacher. Talk with a couple about your goals and ambitions and prepare an audition for the teacher.
"Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice."

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Re: study or not
Reply #2 on: February 17, 2013, 04:26:30 AM
hey guys!
i need your opinion about something:
i am going to turn 18 this summer and i have had piano lessons since I was 7 till last year (teacher failed and dismotivated me). so i had a break of half a year. now i have some new projects an i am thinking about future.
What shell i do??

at the moment i study: mephisto from liszt. romanze from dvorak and i repeade some easiers like parts of the mondschein 3nd or alla turka for my speed i need for liszt.

there are 2 opionions: turn back to another teacher in the music school and stay there or prepare for the university 2014 (with or without a teacher donīt know eighter)

I would be grateful if you have some helpful tips to decide.
greetings


You dont say which university but my opinion is a university is better for an 18 yo going forward to the future.

Offline irismanu

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Re: study or not
Reply #3 on: February 17, 2013, 09:51:09 AM
thanks for advidse. i also tend to do so. but i have time since july to decide what to do.
for the uni (mozarteum) i am to late for starting in autumn.

but there is a preparation year at this uni:
there you have to play:
a) 1 Etude
b) 1 polyphones Werk
c) 1 classicl Sonate (1. Satz)
d) 1 Werk nach Wahl (Romantik oder Moderne)

ideas which pieces to take? i have 3 month time to learn all 4 ...

thanks
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