Memorization: How Many Piece Of Music Do You Have In Your Head?

[beethovenopus2no3movt2]

 -Memorizing pieces and storing them in your head is very healthy.

As a student of piano it is a good idea to memorize pieces of music.

However, anyone can do this. So, How many pieces do you have memorized. This would include you memorized piano repertoire only.

Here's what I have:

Bach: Prelude 1 in C Major BWV 846 from the Well-Tempered Clavier
Chopin - Minute Waltz Op64 No.1
Beethoven piano sonata op 2 no 1, movement 4
Beethoven Appassionata 2
Invention #13
Invention 5 Bach
Beethoven - Piano Sonata n.4 op.7 - 1 mov.
Invention 8 Bach
Beethoven Sonata Op.2 No.3 in C Major
Beethoven - Sonata op.2 No.3 - 2nd mvt
Beethoven Sonata Op 2 no 3 in C major Glenn Gould (3/4)
Beethoven Sonata Op 2 no 3 in C major Glenn Gould (4/4)
Chopin Nocturne In B Flat Minor Op.9 No.1
Chopin - Marche Funèbre - Funeral March
Mendelssohn Songs Without Words Op.62 no.6 in A Major - Spring Song
Chopin Nocturne in C sharp Minor (No.20)
Invention 12 Bach by Glenn Gould
Bach: WTC1 No. 3 in C sharp major BWV 848
Bach / Art of fugue - Contrapunctus01

[birba]

-Memorizing pieces and storing them in your head is very healthy.

As a student of piano it is a good idea to memorize pieces of music.

However, anyone can do this. So, How many pieces do you have memorized. This would include you memorized piano repertoire only.

Here's what I have:

Bach: Prelude 1 in C Major BWV 846 from the Well-Tempered Clavier
Chopin - Minute Waltz Op64 No.1
Beethoven piano sonata op 2 no 1, movement 4
Beethoven Appassionata 2
Invention #13
Invention 5 Bach
Beethoven - Piano Sonata n.4 op.7 - 1 mov.
Invention 8 Bach
Beethoven Sonata Op.2 No.3 in C Major
Beethoven - Sonata op.2 No.3 - 2nd mvt
Beethoven Sonata Op 2 no 3 in C major Glenn Gould (3/4)
Beethoven Sonata Op 2 no 3 in C major Glenn Gould (4/4)
Chopin Nocturne In B Flat Minor Op.9 No.1
Chopin - Marche Funèbre - Funeral March
Mendelssohn Songs Without Words Op.62 no.6 in A Major - Spring Song
Chopin Nocturne in C sharp Minor (No.20)
Invention 12 Bach by Glenn Gould
Bach: WTC1 No. 3 in C sharp major BWV 848
Bach / Art of fugue - Contrapunctus01

I get it.  I thought you were talking about memorized pieces you can sit down and play.  But then i saw
Glenn gould and i thought maybe he had edited some beethoven and bach.  No, you mean how many pieces you can  close your eyes to and run them through your head.  Right?
Cute!  I have lots and lots and lots...but i could probably be your great granddad.

[ade16]

-Memorizing pieces and storing them in your head is very healthy.

As a student of piano it is a good idea to memorize pieces of music.

However, anyone can do this. So, How many pieces do you have memorized. This would include you memorized piano repertoire only.

Here's what I have:

Bach: Prelude 1 in C Major BWV 846 from the Well-Tempered Clavier
Chopin - Minute Waltz Op64 No.1
Beethoven piano sonata op 2 no 1, movement 4
Beethoven Appassionata 2
Invention #13
Invention 5 Bach
Beethoven - Piano Sonata n.4 op.7 - 1 mov.
Invention 8 Bach
Beethoven Sonata Op.2 No.3 in C Major
Beethoven - Sonata op.2 No.3 - 2nd mvt
Beethoven Sonata Op 2 no 3 in C major Glenn Gould (3/4)
Beethoven Sonata Op 2 no 3 in C major Glenn Gould (4/4)
Chopin Nocturne In B Flat Minor Op.9 No.1
Chopin - Marche Funèbre - Funeral March
Mendelssohn Songs Without Words Op.62 no.6 in A Major - Spring Song
Chopin Nocturne in C sharp Minor (No.20)
Invention 12 Bach by Glenn Gould
Bach: WTC1 No. 3 in C sharp major BWV 848
Bach / Art of fugue - Contrapunctus01

I understand birba's point completely. Having read a lot of your silly posts recently I would find it hard to believe that you could actually play any of the music at all on your list; at all I mean, let alone from memory! That would require far more maturity, self-discipline and capacity for serious
intellectual endeavour than you seem to possess! (Judging from your posts all over this forum!) 

You seem to be very good at asking very open ended questions but not contributing very much, if anything at all, to the wider discussion yourself! You never even seem to respond to anyone else's posts which have arisen from your tantalizing questions!!!
 

[pianoplunker]

-Memorizing pieces and storing them in your head is very healthy.

As a student of piano it is a good idea to memorize pieces of music.

However, anyone can do this. So, How many pieces do you have memorized. This would include you memorized piano repertoire only.

Here's what I have:

My In-Head storage license only allows for four memorized classical pieces at any given time in my life. Those 26,263 other songs in my head are blues/rock/jazz but I dont know if those count.
Actually , I am no longer making it a point to memorize as a separate excersize. I have gained much more by focusing on the playing and phrasing and dynamics and I find the memorization comes naturally after very good practice. On the other hand when I was a kid, I would work on memorization way too early and never really have the playing up to  par.  The old classical ideaology that piano players must memorize in order to be worthy is crap which I fell for long ago. However it is very handy not to rely on sheets in front of you too. That all comes  from solid practice.  Most of the pieces you listed I have played before from memory but I had to make room for other things. However today I could play them with the music in front of me no problem. So if we are at a venue that wants to hear your list of music I can still do it. Would it be fair to say I dont know them ? Even though we've already met ?