Bach/Chopin/Rach/Debussy preludes, Beethoven Sonatas

[poetsofthepiano]

Hi all,
I am an aspiring film musician from India. Here, music is all about melodic improvisation, lyrics, flutes, violins and a lot of other indian instruments. But I want to westernise the music here as well.

I intend to learn the preludes by Bach, Chopin, Rach, Debussy and Shostakovich. I also want to learn Beethoven's sonatas and Mendelssohn's Songs without words.

But here is the twist. I do not intend to learn them completely - I get all muddled up when I start exploring Counterpoint and fugal techniques and it takes a lot of time.
I intend to extract the melody out of each piece and the vision, technique and style of each composer.
So I will primarily be practising the right hand of all the pieces and adding accompaniments of my own and start improvising them into my own music.
In this way I save time, confusion and stick to melodic improvisation which is what matters here.

(Say a Chopin prelude would take me 2-4 weeks to complete it the way it should be but playing the right hand and adding my own accompaniments take me about 3-4 days. tested)

I have no pressure or need to perform any of these pieces but still want to be influenced by all of the composers mentioned above.

I intend to complete all of these in about 2 years. Is this a bad way to go about it? Is there a right way to go about it? Is there any other way I can go about it?
This is the next 2 years of my life, so any comment would be deeply appreciated and helpful.

Thanks

[theholygideons]

Why would you ever half learn something. It seems that you aren't inclined towards performing them at any level, so why not just analyse the score's harmony, melody, and structure, like a conductor would and follow the recordings. If you want to play the right hand and improvise the left then that's improvising and you can only do that specific to the composer's style once you've studied his work first.

[chopinlover01]

^
Funny, there was an anecdote on this forum about Liszt keeping the melody of Chopin's nocturnes while improvising the accompaniment. Apparently Chopin despised it.

[brogers70]

You don't need anybody's approval for this plan. If that's what you want to do, give it a try and see how what you end up with sounds as music. Twenty different opinions about whether it's a good idea or not don't matter, only the end result is important. So if that idea is what you want to play with, go ahead.

[poetsofthepiano]

Thank you Sir.

Mozart - The Piano Sonata No 16 in C major good for finger exercises?

None of the non-musical finger exercises seem to be helping.

[j_menz]

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Methinks the idea might very much horrify Mozart, but nonetheless a damn sight better than most alternatives.