Forever alone Major Key pieces

[visitor]

so, it's not 100% but lately, as in over the past year, but especially so much more recently, it seems a lot of the 'pick my program/pick my next piece/rate my pieces/am i ready to play blah blah' type threads seem to focus on, mention, or list pieces in minor keys.

dont get me wrong i like c minor as much as the kat, but i don't get why so few (here at least, it seems isolated as I don't encounter this in other piano/music circles) give any love to the Major Key
works.
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I've been self-taught since 14 years old and have been playing since age 10. I'm 16 so I've been playing for 6 years I guess lol (i probs mentioned this earlier but i felt it was necessary to say again)

well the sonatas i feel would be most possible for me to learn before im 18 that i would be interested in being able to play to a masterful extent would be the following:

czerny's 9th piano sonata in b minor
schubert's piano sonata in a minor (d845)
mozart's piano sonata in a minor
grieg's piano sonata in e minor
rachmaninoff's piano sonata in d and b flat minor
schumann (both clara and robert)'s piano sonatas in g minor
robert schumann's piano sonata in f sharp minor
all of faure's nocturnes and barcaroles
haydn's piano sonata in b, e, and g minor
beethoven's pathetique or appasionata. maybe even the hammerklavier.

the pieces i know how to play are:
mozart's fantasies in d and c minor
bach's bwv910, 923, some of the well tempered clavier preludes and fugues, his sinfonia in f minor, and a few more bach pieces
the first mov of beethoven's moonlight sonata. i attempted to learn the finale but i felt it was too much for me lmao
wagner fantasy in f sharp minor (the first mov)
fur elise
mozart adagio in b minor
chopin nocturne in f minor and f sharp minor
chopin polonaise in c minor
brahms intermezzo in e minor

if you guys think im not ready for the pieces i said i was interested in learning based on my repretoire then feel free to recommend me a sonata or suite in a minor key. ive always been biased to minor keys so i would like my first fully learned sonata to be in a minor key as well. thanks in advance.

I am currently preparing for the next piano audition for Juilliard, Curtis and several other colleges and universities. However, I am really having trouble choosing my repertoire. Also, I am well aware that my level isn't very high as I haven't had that much time to prepare because of injuries and numerous school projects in the last few years.

These are the pieces I am currently learning and which I also consider to show accurately my level of technique:

Bach - Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 851
Beethoven - Sonata No. 8, Op. 13
Chopin - Étude Op. 10 No. 4

I still need to choose these pieces to complete the required repertoire:

-Étude by Bartók, Debussy, Ligeti, Liszt, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, or Stravinsky
-A substantial composition predominantly slow by Chopin
-A substantial work not less than 10 minutes long
-A 20th- or 21st-century solo piece

I am really struggling here. PLEASE HELP!

there's lots of examples i just didn't want to dedicate more than 45 seconds to searching for them.


so this is my little hommage to you, Major Keys piano pieces. Shout out to you, you don't have to be forever alone!

Here's to you Major Key, I celebrate you.
I choose you!


(note no hate for minor keys, just need to show much love to these)
 


so in no particular order, i'll start with
Ignacy Jan Paderewski - Cracovienne fantastique in B major, Op. 14 No. 6

lovely work played especially well  'recently' seems to capture a lot of the panache of a bygone era

[visitor]

i should note it doesn't neccessarily have to be happy (thought it helps since happy is so much fun), as 'major' can be nostalgic with a tinge of pain, and in soviet music, the maj/minor doesn't really always paint happy vs sad but the meter, pacing, and melodic contstructs.

so this medley is pure joy, i smile every time i listen to this and i smile between shouting curse words at my hands when i try to read through it at home on my instrument
A.YUYAMA : Finale Cake March

[visitor]

so not splitting hairs as things can slip into an out of major, but overall, is the piece major key centered or if hard to place a key, is the impression of 'major' given (ie lots of complex modulations, borrowed chords, or quirky jazzyish harmony for example),
so this is all over the place but overall i place it in the 'major' category and the original I believe is keyed to G major, other flavors exist, but it's all [major good] , that it's a bouncy frolic funfest helps

[worov]

This is one is in C major and is very fun :

[visitor]

This is one is in C major and is very fun :

yeah!!! Love pdq's music!

Ok here we go

[mjames]

Stuff I'm learning:

Two pieces in major keys (f major and e major)
4 pieces with no tonal centers
1 piece in a minor key(c minor)

Then again I don't make threads about the stuff I'm learning, so I guess I wasn't included in your 'data set.'. Major keys can be really fun if you write them in exotic modes and stuff! Two of the Medtner sonatas from the op. 11 are in major keys. They're really beautiful~

[outin]

I am a Finn. We don't do major. Even the songs we learn as children are in minor.

[visitor]

Stuff I'm learning:

Two pieces in major keys (f major and e major)
4 pieces with no tonal centers
1 piece in a minor key(c minor)

Then again I don't make threads about the stuff I'm learning, so I guess I wasn't included in your 'data set.'. Major keys can be really fun if you write them in exotic modes and stuff! Two of the Medtner sonatas from the op. 11 are in major keys. They're really beautiful~

ha. yeah you've got some good pieces in the works!
Medtner is always welcome, incredible sonata there, grabs you right from the beginning.
here's a cool Czerny C major Toccata from the Moskowski album of his complete transcriptions

I am a Finn. We don't do major. Even the songs we learn as children are in minor.

lol,


ok here's a lovely little doodad in G major, Ludwigs famous minuet but transcription by Moskowski

[preludetr]

Chopin's Barcarolle is a great primarily slow major key piece.