Inspired by the topic "Last piece on piano" I wanted to turn the question around a bit and ask what the first "real" piece you learned and played was? I'm thinking about something that isn't an arrangement of a melody or a two line piece in a method book, but an "actual" piece, if that definition makes any sense. My first piece was probably the Arabesque from Burgmuller's Etudes op. 100 (many legitimately great little character pieces in that set btw, I highly recommend it even today), which I learned using my Yamaha keyboards song playback system before I had a teacher. I probably didn't play it very well, but nevertheless, it was a real piece. Which piece was your first "real" piece?
I don't remember when exactly I switched from lesson-style pieces to "real" repertoire and what exact pieces those were, but one of the earliest "real" pieces/notable parts of piano repertoire that I learned was Scarlatti's Sonata in E Major K. 380. 3rd grade me was not at all equipped for those LH trills
Glad to be an inspiration . Surprisingly enough, I remember playing that Burgmuller Arabesque when I was young. Not sure if it was my "first" piece, but it was one of my firsts.
It was one of the built-in songs on my Yamaha keyboard along with some of the other Op. 100 Etudes and some other stuff. Did you learn it from a keyboard or was it part of like what your teacher worked on with you?
I feel like the first piece that felt 'real' to me was the first movement of the moonlight sonata. Everything I had played prior to that was from method books or really simple Bach preludes and what not (probably from the AM notebook). That was the first piece that was a real 'classical' piece by a real composer that people knew and what not. My teacher didn't want me to learn it either. She didn't think I was ready. However, my dad bought the music for me and I essentially learned half of it in a short period of time and then showed my teacher. She then saw how motivated I was with it and she let me learn the whole thing. I had such a passion to learn it. I remember even playing video games back in the day (maybe Earthworm Jim) and it being in the background. I just paused the game and let the music go because it was so beautiful. It was the piece (perhaps like many) that led me to love classical music and was the first piece I felt was real.Okay. Done rambling, but was definitely a special time in my childhood.-KC
Topic: First "real" piece you played? 