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Topic: Beethoven Sonata *movements* order of difficulty, please help.  (Read 4714 times)

Offline slane

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Hi,
  I've fallen into a terrible piano slump. I just can't seem to summon up any interest in playing. So I thought I would go back to my darling Beethoven and tackle the sonata movements in order of increasing difficulty. I know there are plenty of lists of the order of the entire sonatas, but I want to tackle them movement by movement and I can't seem to find such a list. If I'm mistaken, please point me to the list.

I've made a list of the movements, and, with the help of pianosyllabus.com, ranked almost all of them, but some don't appear on any syllabus, so I am in the dark.

The missing movements are... I've adopted the pianosyllabus convention of numbering them Op.(No).movement

2.01.02
2.02.02
2.03.01
2.02.02
2.03.04
10.03.02
26.03
28.04
31.01.02
31.01.03
31.02.02
31.02.03
31.03.01
53.01
53.02
52.03
54.01
54.02
54.03
57.01
57.02
57.03
78.02
81a.01
81a.02
81a.03
90.01
101.01
101.02
101.03
101.04
106.01
106.02
106.03
106.04
109.01
109.02
109.03
110.01
110.02
110.03
111.01
111.02


For your reference, here are the rankings of the other movements. If you know any of these movements and can compare them to the missing ones to give a relative rank, I would be most grateful,

#1    
2.01.01   7
2.01.02   XXX
2.01.03   6
2.01.04   9
#2   
2.02.01   9
2.02.02   XXX
2.0203   5
2.02.04   8
#3   
2.03.01   XXX
2.02.02   XXX
2.03.03   7
2.03.04   XXX
#4   
7.01   9
7.02   8
7.03   6
7.04   8
#5   
10.01.01   8
10.01.02   8
10.01.03   9
#6   
10.02.01   8
10.02.02   8
10.02.03   8
#7   
10.03.01   8
10.03.02   XXX
10.03.03   6
10.03.04   8
#8   
13.01   9
13.02   6
13.03   7
#9   
14.01.01   8
14.01.02   5
14.01.03   8
#10   
14.02.01   8
14.02.02   5
14.02.03   7
#11   
22.01   8
22.02   7
22.03   6
22.04   8
#12   
26.01   8
26.02   6
26.03   XXX
26.04   8
#13   
27.01.01   8
27.01.02   XXXX
27.01.03   9
#14   
27.02.01   7
27.02.02   6
27.02.03   9
#15   
28.01   8
28.02   8
28.03   8
28.04   XXX
#16   
31.01.01   8
31.01.02   XXX
31.01.03   XXX
#17   
31.02.01   8
31.02.02   XXX
31.02.03   XXX
#18   
31.03.01   XXX
31.03.02   9
31.03.03   7
31.03.04   8
#19   
49.01.01   5
49.01.02   6
#20   
49.02.01   6
49.02.02   5
#21   
53.01   XXX
53.02   XXX
52.03   XXX
#22   
54.01   XXX
54.02   XXX
54.03   XXX
#23   
57.01   XXX
57.02   XXX
57.03   XXX
#24   
78.01   8
78.02   XXX
#25   
79.01   7
79.02   6
79.03   8
#26   
81a.01   XXX
81a.02   XXX
81a.03   XXX
#27   
90.01   XXX
90.02   9
#28   
101.01   XXX
101.02   XXX
101.03   XXX
101.04   XXX
#29   
106.01   XXX
106.02   XXX
106.03   XXX
106.04   XXX
#30   
109.01   XXX
109.02   XXX
109.03   XXX
#31   
110.01   XXX
110.02   XXX
110.03   XXX
#32   
111.01   XXX
111.02   XXX

Thanks
-s

Offline slane

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OK...I found a thread on this forum debating which were the 10 hardest movements, from which I inferred some levels for those, and I inferred a level for the No. 1 2nd movement from the RCM syllabus, which leaves....

2.02.02
2.03.01
2.02.02
10.03.02
26.03
28.04
31.01.02
31.01.03
31.02.02
31.02.03
31.03.01
53.01
53.02
54.01
54.02
54.03
57.02
78.02
81a.01
81a.02
81a.03
90.01
101.01
101.02
101.03
101.04
106.02
106.03
109.01
109.02
110.02
27.01.02

Any guesses? Stabs in the dark? Firmly held beliefs? Religious convictions? Any and all are welcome.
 

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